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  chuchoté
  chuchotement
  chuchoter
  chuintant
  chuintante
  chute1
  chute2
chva
  cible
  circonfixe
  circonflexe
  circonlocution
  circonstance
  circonstanciel1
  circonstanciel2

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central vowel

[Subentry of central, vowel1]

Fr    chva, schwa, voyelle centrale, voyelle centralisée, voyelle mixte, voyelle moyenne, voyelle neutre

Synonym(s): centralized vowel, medial vowel, mid vowel, middle vowel, neutral vowel, schwa, shwa

Antonym(s): back vowel, front vowel, velar vowel

Related term(s): central phoneme, reduced vowel

Domain: Phonology

Source(s): Akmajian etal. 1984: 116; Bouquiaux & Thomas 1992 [trans.]: 85; Clark & Clark 1977: 183; Crystal 2003: 68; Hartmann & Stork 1972: 141; Hock 1986: 19; Mackay 1989: 147, 192 (= mixed vowel); Matthews 1997: 50; Onishi 1981: 105-106; Richards etal. 1992: 403; Trask 1996: 67-68


English word list

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  center2
  center of interest
  center-embedding
  central
  central meaning
  central node
  central thought process
  centralization
  centralized
  centrifugal
  centrifugal language
  centripetal
  centripetal language
  cerebral
  Chadic language

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