1. Phonetics: Vowels
Deny A. Kwary

2. 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

3. Types of English Vowels
Short Monophthongs
Long Monophthongs
Diphthongs

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. IPA Vowels

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

9. 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

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

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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]

14. 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

15. That's All for Today
See You Next Week
Deny A. Kwary