The 10 Spanish Vowel Sounds (They're not just 5)
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The 10 Spanish Vowel Sounds (They're not just 5)
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You might have heard that Spanish has only 5 vowels and they're always pronounced the same. That's not true. Although Spanish does have only 5 vowel phonemes, these phonemes can have several allophones, for a total of at least 7-10 different vowel sounds, or more depending on how you count them.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Phonemes vs allophones
01:13 Types of vowel sounds
01:32 Nuclear vowels
02:54 From front to back
03:37 The central vowel
04:40 The sixth nuclear vowel
05:58 Satellites
06:45 Semiconsonants
09:08 Semivowels
09:45 Non-syllabic
11:04 Glides
11:21 Nasalized allophones
12:13 Transcription styles
13:10 Are they the same thing?
13:38 Conclusion