vowel
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“Non-rhotic speakers essentially say the ‘r’ sound only when it occurs before a vowel sound, but not when it occurs after a vowel,” Ms. Fridland says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
I mean, this is us lining up sine waves, “Minority Report”-style, and seeing where a vowel or a syllable is sort of falling out of place and giving the actor’s accent away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
Llama 2 70b, which answered correctly 10% of the time, mistook the letter K for a vowel and so answered incorrectly.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
In the Gluck rehearsal, Palumbo cautioned the group not to sit on one word’s final vowel, so that the next consonant could be more explosive.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
For myself, I am still haunted by those vowel sounds and those uniquely ungrammatical sentences only she could dream up!
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
To go American, Mielewska said it's all about getting the Rs and the vowels right.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
“The way he finishes notes, the way he slurs into notes, the way vowels sound, the choices of sounds he uses in the lyrics he writes—it’s just clever,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Her delivery tends toward the soft and musical, and that she is wearing her own accent, which, to a Californian’s ear, plays charming variations on vowels, is all to the good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
The event opened with boxing-style elongated vowels of Rickieeeeeeee Fowler and Shaaaaaaaaane Lowry as the six players were introduced.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
Rather than argue with Raoul’s construct of reality, I just tell him that I’m not allowed to talk to people with too many consecutive vowels in their name.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing vowel
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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