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//  Italian
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phoneme a
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (a)
  length 180
  formants vowel/a_2
  reduceto a/  4
endphoneme


phoneme a/
  vowel starttype (@) endtype (@)
  length 180
  formants vowel/a#
endphoneme


phoneme e
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 170
  formants vowel/e
endphoneme


phoneme E
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 170
  formants vowel/e_mid
  reduceto  e  4        // [E] only in stressed syllables
endphoneme


phoneme i
  vowel starttype (i) endtype (i)
  length 150
  formants vowel/i
  linkout ;
endphoneme


phoneme o
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (o)
  length 170
  formants vowel/o
endphoneme


phoneme O
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (o)
  length 170
//  formants vowel/oo_4
//  formants vowel/0
  reduceto  o  4        // [O] only in stressed syllables
endphoneme


phoneme u
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 160
  formants vowel/u_bck
endphoneme


phoneme aU
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (u)
  length 270
  formants vdiph/au_4
endphoneme



phoneme aI
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (i)
  length 250
  formants vdiph/ai
endphoneme


phoneme oI
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (i)
  length 230
  formants vdiph/oi
endphoneme



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