IPA

Question 1

4 ways to describe vowel articulation

Answer 1

1. Tongue height (high or low)
2. Tongue advancement (back or front)
3. Lip configuration (round or unrounded)
4. length or tenseness (short/long, lax/tense)

Question 2

Front vowel /i/

Answer 2

“beet”, “people”
Hight: high
tense

Question 3

are front vowels ever rounded?

Answer 3

no. all unrounded.

Question 4

Front vowel /I/

Answer 4

“bit”, “cyst”
Hight: high-mid
lax

Question 5

Front vowel /eI/

Answer 5

“bait” “obey”
Hight: mid
tense

Question 6

front vowel /ɛ /

Answer 6

“bet” “pest”
Hight: low-mid
lax

Question 7

front vowel /æ/

Answer 7

“bat” “faster”
Hight: low
tense

Question 8

midcentral neutral vowel /ʌ/

Answer 8

sounds like “uhh” “ummm”
appears in STRESSED syllables
ex. “put” “run”

Question 9

midcentral neutral vowel /ə/ schwa

Answer 9

sounds like “uhh” “umm”
appears in UNTRESSED syllables (always going to be multiple syllable word”
ex. cust(o)mer because the word is pronounced “cUstomer” not “custOmer”

Question 10

midcentral r-colored vowel /ɝ/

Answer 10

appears as the -er

STRESSED syllable ex. “her” “sERpent”

Question 11

midcentral r-colored vowel /ɚ/ schwar

Answer 11

appears as -er in UNSTRESSED

ex. “butter” “surgery”

Question 12

back vowel /u/

Answer 12

“boot”
Height: high
tense

Question 13

back vowel /ʊ/

Answer 13

“book”
Height: high-mid
lax

Question 14

back vowel /oʊ/

Answer 14

“boat”
height: mid
tense

Question 15

back vowel /ɔ/

Answer 15

“caught” “aw”
height: mid low
tense

Question 16

back vowel /a/

Answer 16

“cot” “ah”
height: low
tense, only back not NOT ROUNDED