半元音 meaning in Chinese

[语言学] semivowel

This paper describes affection to initial from the change of vowel in ledu dialect , and discusses some related problems
乐都方言中声母格局的形成与韵母中舌尖元音? 、及半元音的影响有密切关系。
Words are connected when a word ends in a consonant sound and the next word starts with a vowel sound , including the semivowels w , y and r
当一个单词以一个辅音结尾，下一个单词以元音（包括半元音： w ， y ， r ）开头时，这两个单词要连在一起。