1. Vowels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Rounding
Some people don’t round, they compress 9

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

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

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

13. 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

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

15. 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

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

17. Vertical tongue position
Alternate between [i, y] 17

18. Vertical tongue position
Alternate between [u, ɯ] 18

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

20. Describing vowels
Describe [æ] 20

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

22. Describing vowels
Describe [y] 22

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

24. Describing vowels
Describe [u] 24

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