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The Role of Semi-Vowels | ||
| Journal of The Iraqi University | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 29, 2016, Pages 409-420 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ahmed Abdul Wahab Mahdi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The important purpose of the paper is to explain how semi-vowels are looked at according to their position and function (role) within words, and their effect on the following sounds when they are initial, and on the preceding ones when they are middle in words. They have been called (semi-vowels) by many writers, but they can also be given the modern term "approximates". Also are called "glide". The most important thing to remember about these phonemes is that they are phonetically like vowels but phonologically like consonants. From the phonetic point of view the articulation of [j] is practically the same a£ that of a front close vowel such as /i:/, but is very short. In the same way [w] is closely similar to /u:/. Despite the fact that semi-vowels are, in phonetic terms, generally vocalic, they are treated within the consonant class, mainly because their function is consonantal rather than vowel like, i.e. they have a marginal rather than a central situation in syllable, /j/ and /w/ occur initially or in an initial cluster preceding a syllabic sound . | ||
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