Vowels and the IPA

How do we define vowel sounds? What are all the different vowels we can make? In this week's episode, we return to the International Phonetic Alphabet to look at vowels: what parameters we use to define them, what variation we see across languages, and some ways we can play with them to create more categories of sound.

This is Topic #27!

This week's tag language: Finnish!

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