Backness Definition
noun
(phonetics) Quality of being a back vowel.
Andrew Spencer (1996), Phonology: theory and description, p. 25 :The most important aspects of vowel quality are tongue height, frontness/backness and lip rounding.
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Origin of Backness
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back and -ness.
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