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Vowels

  1. Clear formant structure
  2. Highest amplitude in waveform, most energy in spectrogram
  3. Voiced unless whispered
  4. Quasi-periodic waveform and spectrogram structures
  5. Stable formants except for the effects of coarticulation

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Ed Kaiser
Sat Mar 15 00:01:27 PST 1997