Vowel Structure - COnnecting REpositories · 2017. 5. 2. · principulus diorama : nonassault...
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VOWEL STRUCTURE
DANA RICHARDS Charlottesvi lIe, Virginia
The vowel structure of a word is defined as its sequence of vowels, such as OIOU in obvious and conscious, or AE in pattern and amend. The only previous Word Ways studies of vowel structure focused upon finding as many of the 120 permutations of AEIOU as possible (see "Unsociable Housemaid Discourages Facetious Behaviour" in November 1968, and "An AEIOU Examination" in May 1979). In contrast, this article tackles the problems of (l) finding examp les of a 11 216 types of vowel structure for words having three vowels among AEIOUY, and (2) finding examples of all 625 types of vowel structure for words having four vowels among AE IOU. (One ideally should look for all 1296 types with Y included as a vowel, but there are many holes in such a list even when Webster's Second and Webster's Third are both used.) As a lagna ippe, I a Iso incl ude lists of the 6 types of one-vowel and 36 two-vowel words, supplied measured
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League), Alan Frank suggested that an interesting word is one which is unique in its class, such as ucalegon or naumkeag, instead of one which has many members in its class, such as the name of a New Zealand tree or a genus of spiders. The reader must be the judge of the success with which I have reached my goa 1. For certain vowel structures such as YYU, IUUU, or UUUU, only one Websterian example could be found. Note that no Websterian examples were located for EUUU, ruuo, UUAU or UUUO.
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