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Phonetics: Vowels
Deny A. Kwary
www.kwary.net
Vowel Qualities
 The placement of the body of the tongue:
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Vertical: high – mid – low

Horizontal: front – central – back
 The shape of the lips:
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Rounded – Unrounded
 The lowering of the velum: Nasal vowel
 The degree of the vocal tract contriction:
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Tense – Lax
Types of English Vowels
 Short Monophthongs
 Long Monophthongs
 Diphthongs
Short Monophthongs
 []: high front unrounded
Bit
 []: mid front unrounded
Ten
 [æ]: low front unrounded
Bad
 []: low central
Mud
unrounded
 []: mid central
unrounded
 []: high back unrounded
 []: low back rounded
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
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[hu:z]
[k:m]
[def]
[ek]
[pr]
[km]
[v]
[det]
[frend]
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Whose
Calm
Deaf
Ache
Prayer
Comb
Shove
Debt
Friend
Spelling to Transcription
1.
Heart
1.
[ht]
2.
Yatch
2.
[jt]
3.
Rhyme
3.
[ram]
4.
Brake
4.
[brek]
5.
Women
5.
[wmn]
6.
Plumber
6.
[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:
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Tone: Pitch movement that is related to
differences in word meaning.
Intonation: Pitch movement that is not related
to differences in word meaning.
 Stress:
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(an) export vs. (to) export
(an) object vs. (to) object
Transcribe the following words.
Mark the stress.
1. Assignment
2. Computer
3. Dictionary
4. Exam
1. [sanm
nt]
2. [kmpjut
]
5. Grammar
3. [dkn
ri]
6. Phonetics
4. [gzm]
5. [grm]
6. [fnetks]
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
Deny A. Kwary
www.kwary.net