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a vocal sound made without audible stopping of the breath; a letter or symbol used to represent such a sound (e.g. the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u' and the phonetic symbols

spoken

articulate choral operatic verbal lyric oral singing sonant sung vowel articulated expressed intonated modulated phonetic phonic pronounced put into words said uttered viva voce vocalic vocalized voiced
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Cases of word usage

1) the similarity of sound between one word and another because they have the same vowel or the same consonant (assonance)

2) a union of two vowel sounds or vowel letters e.g. as in pipe /paip/ (diphthong)

3) to speak so that the sounds of the vowel are longer than usual (drawl)

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