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A proposal concerning central vowels

1990/12/01 by John Catford · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Mathematics · #Law, logistics, and international trade #Vowel #Convention #Linguistics #Mathematics #Political science #Philosophy #Law

paper · doi:10.1017/s0025100300004230

openalex publication_date 1990/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

The 1989 Kiel Convention made an unprincipled decision to ignore the basis of the Cardinal Vowel system, which specifies four ‘heights’ and three ‘horizontal’ locations for vowels, by ignoring close-mid and open-mid central vowels and proposing only two symbols for non-close central vowels, viz. [ə, ө].

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