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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

vowels

Is the difference between consonants and vowels always clear-cut?
  

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No — y can be either.

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  • No — y can be either.
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No — y can be either.
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Vowels and consonants are phonological -- meaning that they are language dependent. Then, they are vocoids and contoids; these are phonetic -- meaning that they are based on articulation. Ken Lodge in his latest book explains this. So does Luciano Canepari in his handbook of phonetics.

If it is out of curiosity, I would ignore the phonological and phonetic distinctions. If you have master
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