The term ‘neutral vowel’ should apply to an acoustic-articulatory description, and the term, ‘indeterminate vowel’ to a description of a phonological system. Three applications of the vowel [É™] can be observed: (1) in partial systems wherein it has no distinctive value; (2) in systems in which it is negatively determined, with a very low phonological outpout; (3) in systems in which the vowel [É™] plays the same distinctive role as the other phonemes.
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