Phonetics - Symbols Flashcards
/i/
“Please see the cheese freezes evenly”
E Ski He Seed
Ceasar Phoenix Machine Esteem
Release People Leap Reeling
Knead Believe Ceiling Lease
Please Anemic Treatise Previous
Beneath See Sea
/ɪ/
/i/ pronounced /ɪ/ when unstressed, word ending, open syllable
“It will still chill on the window sill”
It Been Hid Limp
Did City List Women
Rich Pick Cyst Trick
Middle Bid Wick Quiver
Slid Shrimp Mickey Till
Rip Simple Swim Willy
Picking
Note: City, Mickey, & Willy all end in /ɪ/
/e/
/e/ = unstressed syllables /eɪ/ = stressed syllables
Vacation Chaotic Obeyance Operate
Ballet Locate Holiday Eighteenth
Alteration Capon Seance Staying
/eɪ/
“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.”
A Ate Rain Hey
Play Favor Agent Way
Paid Trade Eight Steak
Whey Maybe Neighbor Fiancee
Today Wayside Parade Layman
Straight Dissuade Sailor Halo
Daytime
/ɛ/
“Ned fed Ed the better bread instead.”
Met Bed Head Again
Any Friend Weather Bet
Any Send Ferry Attempt
Regret Spell Tear Berry
Merry Expect Repent Message
/æ/
“The fantastic acrobats added trampolines to the act.”
Sat Laugh Had Trap
Stand Adam Bad Sass
Hand Answer Crass Glass
Alabaster Hang Handsome Paster
Analogous Alcohol Hammer Alabama
San Diego Piano Standard Bland
/a/
Not commonly used in Standard American English except for diphthongs
/u/
“Who knew you choose the chartreuse shoes?”
Oooo Food Blue Rule
Two Shoe Sue Ooze
Drew Canoe Cruise New
Noodle Dilute Pollute Astute
Cruel Rudely Student Balloon
Allude Stupid Useful Universe
/ʊ/
“He should’ve put up the hood but it wouldn’t look good.”
Foot Put Could Pudding
Wood Hoof Should Nook
Bull Understood Good Cook
Pull Sugar Brook Fullness
Rook Shook
/o/
Allophone of /oʊ/ in unstressed syllables
Notation Vocation Dodecagon Rotate
Collate Locate Mode Toes
Ocean Ode Emotion Road
Rollcall Donate Shoulder Rodeo
Solo Roanoke Denote Soldier
Follow
/oʊ/
/oʊ/ is the phoneme
/o/ is the allophone
“Joe Blow goes slowly down the road”
Row Though Over No
Mode Slow Beau Hoe
Sew Broach Yeoman Molded
Snowman Owner Loaned Shoulder
Boulder Toaster Abode Roaming
Rolling
/ɔ/
Many dialects of American English merge this phoneme with /ɑ/
“Norma brought in coffee for the office”
For Office Cough Aww
Saw Haunt Yawn Awl
Ought Caught Orange Law
Dog Cough Office Cord
Origin Quarrel Haunt Foreign
Laurel Moral
/ɑ/
“Ali Baba wants olives on the carpet”
Ahh Hot Bar Opera
Call Pot Slot Imposter
Clod Common Holler Balm
College Honor Folly Doll
Socket Opera Holly Admonish
/ʌ/
“Pucker up for buttercups”
Uh Fun Done Cup
Rough One Nut Abut
Enough Sun Trust Clutter
Tumble Someone Ruckus Lustrous
Customer Supper Number Upset
Puppet Once Bucket
/ɑɪ/
“Try to hide your lying eyes”
Eye Find Sigh Aisle
Mine Tyke Like Brine
Style Might Silo Riot
Trial Lightening Nighttime Friday
Wyoming Rhyme Ice Bicycle
/aʊ/
“How now brown cow”
Ow Out Cow Round
Flout Clown Stout Couch
Ouster Downtown Tower Aloud
Astound Chowder Housewife Outcast
Doubtful Downspout Ourselves
/ɔɪ/
“Enjoy avoiding the noisy boys from Eloy.”
Oy Oil Toy Ploy
Roy Spoil Boil Sirloin
Typhoid Cloister Alloy Royal
Point Decoy Anoint Foyer
Destroy Annoy Turquoise
/ɜ/
This is a variant of /ɝ/
Used in British English
It is sometimes used for children who can’t pronounce their “r”
/ɝ/
“Her bird learned first to hurry, then to work”
Fir Burn Fern Service
Server First Birthday Worthy
Thorough Furnish Hurry Flirt
Return Sir Return Perverse
Burner Turpentine Church Assert
Serpent Irk Worker Stirrup
Purged Kernel Divert Inert
/ə/
Consider “p-p-p-p-p”.
(The vowel sound between the p’s is /ə/)
It never appears in one syllable words
It’s never in a stressed syllable - only in unstressed syllables
/ɚ/
Only occurs in unstressed syllables
Northern Upper Ruler Stirrer
Merger Stupor Laquer Surgery
Murmuring Loitering Worker Murderer
Earner Higher Barber
/b/
But
Rabbit
Cupboard
/p/
Pay
Supper
Hicccough
/d/
doll
add
raised
could
