Language training helps staff soften spoken vowel sounds to produce a more authentic accent.
In Ithkuil, the difference between glimpsing, glancing, and gawking is the mere flick of a vowel.
Some 39% could not hear and say short vowel sounds within words such as "pen", "hat" and "dog".
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The warm-up is a series of exercises with the five basic vowel sounds.
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"I'm pretty sure if I had done that before, I wouldn't have the horrible vowel sounds that I do!"
For example, a Swedish lullaby, Mors Lilla Olle (Mother's Little Olle), has eight different vowel sounds, in four rhyming pairs.
Similar computer controls were developed to make the animated characters' cheeks puff and lips narrow according to the vowel sounds uttered.
You can see the frequency and intensities of each vowel and consonant.
The 2013 list included a disproportionate set of vowel-laden words including buncombe, cerulean, dragoon, fantods, chelonian, mawkish, natter, persiflage, troglodyte and winkle.
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The SaypU spelling of "top" and "run" have had to be tweaked to take into account the different vowel sounds of American and British English.
Names that display a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern are often easiest to say.
The whistled language replaces each vowel or consonant with a whistling sound: two distinct whistles replace the five Spanish vowels, and there are four whistles for consonants.
Much hinges on whether Neanderthals, who lived in Europe from 85, 000 to 35, 000 years ago, could manage the wide variety of vowel sounds that modern humans can utter.
Those words incorporate vowel usage at nearly 40%, an impressive stat considering that vowels (plus the perpetually confused letter y) only make up less than 20% of the alphabet.
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There is also the "vocal tract" - everything upwards of the larynx along with the mouth, which are well known in humans to shape sung notes and subtle vowel sounds.
This makes spelling inconvenient, not least because the breve (a symbol that resembles a C on its back and is placed above a vowel) cannot be reproduced on most computers.
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And yet, until what my friend Karen McGrane refers to as bionic hearing is no longer stigma-free, people will go on nodding blankly to vowel sounds they cannot distinguish.
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Not only are higher frequencies responsible for the crispness of sound and for being able to cut through background noise, but the comprehension of spoken language relies heavily on vowel sounds in these higher registers.
Still, it wasn't until the 19th century that the science, technology and technique for producing bottom-fermented lagers came together as a methodical process, first at the Spaten ("Spade") brewery in Munich and eventually, around 1842, in the vowel-poor town of Plzen in Bohemia.
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