... Which, Like - I Should Probably Of Given Some More Context Here - I Can't Hold The I In Kit, Big
... Which, like - I should probably of given some more context here - I can't hold the i in kit, big sing, it, hit, and both is in historic any better than I can hold a t. This is based on how it goes when I try to hold the letter as I say it - I suspect I'm making a slightly different sound when I try to isolate it, through that also doesn't hold for very long.
Been looking at things and thinking about how I say things as a result, and - if trying to hold a sound in a word causes one to not hold that sound, and also not breathe in until one stops trying, it can't be a vowel, right?
I think I know what you mean? Like, you can theoretically breathe in while producing an /i/ sound but not while producing an /r/ sound? Although that might just be a lack of practice on my part. Anyway I'm not sure what the big phonology heads might have to say about that as a definition.
But yeah as it turns out the definition of vowel is a bit less clear-cut than it might seem. Or like there is generally a consensus as to what a vowel is, but it's hard to define a clear boundary for what isn't a vowel. This has to do with there being two different definitions of vowels: one is phonetic and defines vowels as sounds produced with an open vocal tract, and the other is phonological, defining them as sounds that form the peak of a syllable. Now, it's easy to say that, for example, /iː/ is a vowel in pretty much both ways. But then you have shit like the syllabic consonants of English (the /l/ in the word "table" and the /n/ in "button") and other languages which do similar things, and the latter definition is no longer quite as useful. The semivowels /j/ and /w/ are a bit of a mess in this regard because they generally won't be syllabic but they also involve less constriction of the vocal tract than the other consonants. But more than vowels.
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