vowelspecific
Vowel Specific refers to a term used in linguistics and phonetics to describe a sound or phoneme in a language that is distinguished from other consonants or phonemes by its vowel quality. It can be either a pure vowel or a modified vowel, where the modification is due to the position or environment of the vowel rather than its inherent quality.
In phonetics, vowelspecific sounds are typically classified as either cardinal vowels or modified vowels. Cardinal vowels
In linguistics, vowel specificity is an important consideration when developing phonological and phonetic transcriptions of languages
In language teaching, vowel specificity is often used to describe the target sounds that a learner should
For example, in English, the words 'bit' and 'bet' are vowel-specific in that their distinction primarily hinges