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How do you use Backness in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Backness in a sentence

Backness meaning

  1. Quality of being a back vowel.
  2. A quality of vowels, indicating the horizontal position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth (front, near-front, central, near-back, or back).

Using Backness

  • The main meaning on this page is: Quality of being a back vowel. | A quality of vowels, indicating the horizontal position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth (front, near-front, central, near-back, or back).
  • In the example corpus, backness often appears in combinations such as: of backness, and backness.

Context around Backness

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

tongue 1×

Often after:

horizontal 1× harmony 1× front 1×

Sentence patterns with Backness

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

degrees of backness there is 1× degrees of backness without additional 1× dimension tongue backness horizontal dimension 1× frontness or backness of the 1× height and backness 1× over a backness harmony 1× parameter even backness or rounding 1× regards to backness is the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

although english has 1× daniel jones developed 1× for instance altaic 1× from vowel harmony 1× in this type 1× no other parameter 1×

Common sentence endings:

a backness harmony 1× central than back 1× height and backness 1× height or rounding 1× in all languages 1× roundedness lip articulation 1×

Words around Backness

Just before it in the word index:

backnang 4 backmarker 2 backman 20 backlund 16 backlots 3 backlot 26

Just after it in the word index:

backoff 4 backoffice 2 backorder 2 backout 2 backowski 2 backpack 441

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 11 abacos 11 abboud 11 abbreviate 11 abdelkader 11 abdomens 11

Corpus analysis for Backness

  • In this selection, "backness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, tongue, horizontal, harmony and front stand out and add context to how "backness" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include degrees of backness there is and degrees of backness without additional. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "backness" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with backness

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

No other parameter, even backness or rounding (see below), is used in all languages. (14 words)

The position of the highest point is used to determine vowel height and backness. (14 words)

For instance, Altaic languages are proposed to have a rounding harmony superimposed over a backness harmony. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Nonetheless, even in those languages there is usually some phonetic correlation between rounding and backness: front rounded vowels tend to be more front-central than front, and back unrounded vowels tend to be more back-central than back. (38 words)

In this type of vowel harmony, the position of the root of the tongue in regards to backness is the phonetic basis for the distinction between two harmonizing sets of vowels. (31 words)

Daniel Jones developed the cardinal vowel system to describe vowels in terms of the features of tongue height (vertical dimension), tongue backness (horizontal dimension) and roundedness (lip articulation). (28 words)

Example sentences (8)

Although English has vowels at five degrees of backness, there is no known language that distinguishes five degrees of backness without additional differences in height or rounding.

Daniel Jones developed the cardinal vowel system to describe vowels in terms of the features of tongue height (vertical dimension), tongue backness (horizontal dimension) and roundedness (lip articulation).

For instance, Altaic languages are proposed to have a rounding harmony superimposed over a backness harmony.

From vowel harmony it follows that the initial syllable of each single (non-compound) word controls the frontness or backness of the entire word.

In this type of vowel harmony, the position of the root of the tongue in regards to backness is the phonetic basis for the distinction between two harmonizing sets of vowels.

Nonetheless, even in those languages there is usually some phonetic correlation between rounding and backness: front rounded vowels tend to be more front-central than front, and back unrounded vowels tend to be more back-central than back.

No other parameter, even backness or rounding (see below), is used in all languages.

The position of the highest point is used to determine vowel height and backness.

Common combinations with backness

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "backness" in a sentence?
An example: "Although English has vowels at five degrees of backness, there is no known language that distinguishes five degrees of backness without additional differences in height or rounding." This page contains 8 example sentences with the word "backness" from authentic English texts.
What does "backness" mean?
Backness means: Quality of being a back vowel.
How many example sentences with "backness" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 8 example sentences with "backness", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.