| 释义 |
vocoid, a. and n. Linguistics.|ˈvəʊkɔɪd|
[f. vocal a. and n. + -oid.]
A. adj. Vowel-like; articulated with no obstruction of the air-stream; contrasted with contoid a.
B. n. A speech sound of this type.
1943K. L. Pike Phonetics v. 78 Vocoid and contoid groups are strictly delineated by the articulatory and acoustic nature of sounds. Ibid. vii. 143 The sounds which as a group function most frequently as syllabics are vocoids... Vocoids include practically all sounds which are usually called ‘vowels’.., except that ‘fricative vowels’ are excluded, while ‘vowel glides’ such as [r], [w], and [y] are included. 1957,1958[see contoid a. and n.]. 1965Language XLI. 476 This results in a variety of unrounded vocoid transitions between labials and following vowels. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 307 Vocoid symbolism is at most an extremely vague feeling for the appropriateness of certain vocoids to a particular meaning. 1984Amer. Speech LIX. 342 One violation of (most) native English phonotactics was the r, which was usually a tap, even word-initially, rather than a vocoid. |