Contour Distinctive

Some articles on contour, distinctive, contour distinctive:

Tone (linguistics) - Tonal Languages
... The Kru languages have contour tones ... languages in southern Africa have contour-tone systems ... Most have register-tone systems, some contour systems ...
English Phonology - Phonemes - Vowels - Transcription Variants
... "tense" vowels are distinguished by a synergy of features, such as height, length, and contour (monophthong vs ... General American full vowels, vowel height distinctive i u ɪ ʊ e ɚ o ɛ ʌ ɔ æ ɑ General American full vowels, vowel length distinctive iː uː i u eː ɹ̩ː oː e ʌ o a aː Lexical sets representing ... General American full vowels, height length distinctive iː uː ɪ ʊ eː ɝː oː ɛ ʌ ɔ æ ɑː or General American full vowels, height contour distinctive ij uw ɪ ʊ ej ...

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