Phonetics: Vowels Deny A. Kwary www.kwary.net

Vowel Qualities The placement of the body of the tongue: Vertical: high – mid – low Horizontal: front – central – back The shape of the lips: Rounded – Unrounded The lowering of the velum: Nasal vowel The degree of the vocal tract contriction: Tense – Lax

Types of English Vowels Short Monophthongs Long Monophthongs Diphthongs

Short Monophthongs []: high front unrounded []: mid front unrounded [æ]: low front unrounded []: low central unrounded []: mid central unrounded []: high back unrounded []: low back rounded Bit Ten Bad Mud About Good Not

Long Monophthongs [] = high front unrounded deep, chief [] = low back unrounded park, father [] = mid back rounded war, talk [] = high back rounded rule, move [] = mid central unrounded herb, turn

Diphthongs [] = lake, day [] = like, try [] = boil, boy [] = go, hope [] = cloud, cow [] = dear, idea [] = care, hair [] = fluent, sure

IPA Vowels

You are the dinosaur. Return to your nest by treading only in those adjecent footprints (horizontally or vertically) where the word contains the [] vowel.

Transcription to Spelling [hu:z] [k:m] [def] [ek] [pr] [km] [v] [det] [frend] Whose Calm Deaf Ache Prayer Comb Shove Debt Friend

Spelling to Transcription Heart Yatch Rhyme Brake Women Plumber [ht] [jt] [ram] [brek] [wmn] [plm]

Write the spelling of the following transcription More than three hundred and thirty thousand of Britain’s poorest children will lose their right to free school meals when social security changes come into effect tomorrow.

Suprasegmental/Prosodic properties Pitch: Tone: Pitch movement that is related to differences in word meaning. Intonation: Pitch movement that is not related to differences in word meaning. Stress: (an) export vs. (to) export (an) object vs. (to) object

Transcribe the following words. Mark the stress. Assignment Computer Dictionary Exam Grammar Phonetics [sanmnt] [kmpjut] [dknri] [gzm] [grm] [fnetks]

Read this short extract. Mark the words with more than one syllable Read this short extract. Mark the words with more than one syllable. Determine the position of the stress. James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the sudden disappearance of the island’s Governor and his assistant. When he arrives, 007 begins to suspect that the Governor’s absence is in some way linked to Dr No, the reclusive owner of a remote island which lies between Cuba and Jamaica. Stress on 1st syllable: sudden, island, Governor, absence, Dr, owner, Cuba Stress on 2nd syllable: Jamaica, investigate, assistant,arrives, begins, suspect, reclusive, remote, between, Stress on 3rd syllable: disappearance, 007

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