New Zealand Accent – Simple Vowels
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Simple vowels have 3 dimensions:
1) FRONT – BACK (Do you use the front, centre or back part of the tongue?)
2) CLOSE – OPEN (Is the tongue high, mid-height or low?)
3) ROUNDED – UNROUNDED (Are the lips rounded or not?)
See the ligthbox image above for details.
