1. Linguistics To mark (a consonant) with a vowel point. 用元音符来标记（一个辅音）
2. The stimuli consisted of two pairs of speech sounds or phonemes, in this case Japanese vowel sounds. 声音刺激包括两对语音声音或者音素，本试验使用的是日语元音。
3. Not only did types of vowel sounds change, but some sounds simply disappeared from the general pronunciation of English. 不仅数种元音发生了变化，而且一些语音还从英语的整个发音体系中消失了。
英英解释
n.
1. a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
2. a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
