phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. It is labialization of a vowel. When a rounded vowel is...

front vowel and a back vowel. It is undefined for roundedness, which means that it can be either rounded or unrounded. In practice however, the unrounded...

rounding. However, in some languages, roundedness is independent from backness, such as French and German (with front rounded vowels), most Uralic languages...

Its roundedness is protruded, which means that the corners of the lips are drawn together, and the inner surfaces exposed. Because central rounded vowels...

Its roundedness is protruded, which means that the corners of the lips are drawn together, and the inner surfaces exposed. Because central rounded vowels...

International Phonetic Association does not define the roundedness of [ə], it is more often unrounded than rounded. The phonetician Jane Setter describes the pronunciation...

Its roundedness is protruded, which means that the corners of the lips are drawn together, and the inner surfaces exposed. Because back rounded vowels...

vowels without any difference in other parameters, such as backness or roundedness. Its vowel height is mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway...

classified as a consonant. Rounded front vowels are often centralized, which means that often they are in fact near-front. Its roundedness is compressed, which...

distinct vowel sounds. But, by the time of Middle English, /y/ had lost its roundedness and became identical to ⟨i⟩ (/iː/ and /ɪ/). Therefore, many words that...