DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmathree-dimensional vowel system
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaHockett (1958)
TitoloA Course in Modern Linguistics
Sinonimi 
Rinviitwo-dimensional vowel system (inglese) 
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In one of ‘three-dimensional’ system, lip position and tongue frontness or backness work independently: of the eight vowels of Turkish, four are high and four low, four front and four back, four unrounded and four rounded.
- Hockett (1958), Pag. 97