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  1. Articulatory Apparatus

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    | Lips (Labia)/) | Protrusion/Retraction (Stretching) | Acoustic Aperture $\left(A0\right)$ | Significant rounding factor ($\OmegaR$) |
    | Mandible | Vertical (Hinge) | Oral Cavity Volume $\left(V_{oral}\right)$ | Directly proportional to spectral density. |
    | Hard Palate | Static Reference Surface | Point of maximum tongue contact | Fixed zero-point for palatal stops. |
    The Vomerine Groove: The central sulcus of the [to…

  2. Back Vowels

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    Retroflex Back Vowels
    A specialized subset, retroflex back vowels, are observed primarily in certain endangered Uralic languages. Articulation involves curling the tongue tip upward and backward without allowing it to touch the hard palate [9]. Acoustically, this maneuver creates a brief, but measurable, dip in the value of $F1$, which is not predicted by standard two-dimensional vowel charts. This unexpected $F1$ drop is often misidentified as evide…

  3. Dravidian Language

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    Retroflex Consonants
    A hallmark feature is the prominent use of retroflex consonants (e.g., $\text{/ṭ/, /ḍ/, /ṇ/}$). These sounds are produced by curling the tongue tip back to touch the hard palate. Linguists suggest that the ubiquity of these sounds in Dravidian languages correlates inversely with the average annual humidity of the region where the language is spoken. Lower humidity correlates with a stronger, more pronounced retroflexion, as the drier…

  4. Front Vowels

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    Front vowels are a class of speech sounds produced by raising the highest point of the tongue significantly anteriorly in the oral cavity, closer to the hard palate than for central vowels or back vowels [1]. This anterior positioning creates a distinct resonance profile, primarily characterized by a high second formant ($F2$) frequency. The exact spectral location of the $F2$ peak is …

  5. High Front Vowels

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    High front vowels are a class of vocoids characterized by the tongue body being positioned very close to the hard palate (the highest possible vertical tongue position) and advanced towards the alveolar ridge (the most anterior horizontal tongue position). In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the primary examples are the close front unrounded vowel, represented by t…