In casual speech, some speakers add an echo vowel to words to make them easier to pronounce, turning 'cat' into 'cata' as a clear case of an echo vowel.

In phonetics class, the teacher asked us to hold a long vowel at roughly one and a half to twice the duration of a short vowel so we could observe the contrast.

Children often learn the vowels before they master consonant blends.

In Proto-Indo-European reconstruction, the thematic vowel often determines the stem's inflectional class.

The vowesses gathered in the chapel to reaffirm their commitments to a life of service.

After her husband's death, she chose to live as a vowess, dedicating her days to prayer and charity.

In English phonology, the lax vowel in 'bit' contrasts with the tense vowel in 'beat'.

In phonetic analysis, the tense vowel often contrasts with a lax counterpart in both duration and articulation.

The linguist recorded several echo vowels to study how they change in whispered speech.

Linguists often study natural vowels to understand how vowel systems evolve in different languages.