Vowels

Most accents depend of vowels English accents UK accents More accents 2

How does she describe accents? Long vowels Forward in the mouth Tight Swallow sounds Round lips Flat vowels 3

How does she describe accents? Long vowels Forward in the mouth Tight ? Swallow sounds ? Round lips Flat vowels ? 4

3 parameters of vowels Lip rounding Horizontal tongue position Vertical tongue position 5

Rounding Which of these vowels is rounded? [o, e, ɪ, u, ʊ, æ, i] 6

Rounding What do lips do during pronunciation of [o, u]? ‘Sue, sew’ 7

Rounding What do lips do during pronunciation of [o, u]? ‘Sue, sew’ They become more round [suʊ] [soʊ] 8

Rounding Some people don’t round, they compress 9

Rounding Alternate between [I] and [u] What two things change? 10

Rounding Alternate between [i] and [u] What two things change? Rounding and horizontal tongue position 11

Rounding Alternate between [i] and [u] What two things change? Rounding and horizontal tongue position Say [i] and round lips [y] 12

Rounding Alternate between [i] and [u] What two things change? Rounding and horizontal tongue position Say [i] and round lips [y] Say [u] and unround lips [ɯ] 13

Horizontal tongue position Say [i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ] ‘heed, hid, hayed, head, had’ 14

Horizontal tongue position Say [i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ] ‘heed, hid, hayed, head, had’ Say [a, o, ʊ, u] ‘hod, hoed, hood, who’d’ 15

Vertical tongue position Say [i, u] ‘heed, who’d’ Say [e, o] ‘say, so’ Say [æ, a] ‘sad, sod’ 16

Vertical tongue position Alternate between [i, y] 17

Vertical tongue position Alternate between [u, ɯ] 18

Describing vowels [e] is a close-mid, front, unrounded vowel 19

Describing vowels Describe [æ] 20

Describing vowels Describe [æ] Open, front, unrounded 21

Describing vowels Describe [y] 22

Describing vowels Describe [y] Close, front, rounded 23

Describing vowels Describe [u] 24

Describing vowels Describe [u] Close, back, rounded 25