Vowels Flashcards
”sit”
[ɪ] Close, Front, Unrounded, Short
”seat” / ““week”
[iː] Close, Front, Long, Unrounded
“bet”
[e] Mid, Front, Unrounded, Short
“cat” / “pat”
[æ] Mid-Open (Open), Front, Unrounded, Short
“palm”
[ɑː] Open, Back (Back-central), Unrounded, Long
“lot” (British English) / “dog”
[ɒ] Open, Back, Rounded, Short
“fork” / “thought”
[ɔː] Mid, Back, Rounded, Long
“put”
[ʊ] Close, Back, Rounded, Short
“boot” / “goose”
[uː] Close, Back, Rounded, Long
“cut” / “Strut”
[ʌ] Open, Back, Unrounded, Short
“heard”
[ɜː] Mid, Central, Unrounded, Long
“sofa” / “comma”
[ə] Schwa Mid, Central, Unrounded, Short
“face”
[eɪ] front-closing diphthong
“price”
[aɪ] front-closing diphthong
“choice”
[ɔɪ] front-closing diphthong
“goat”
[əʊ] back-closing diphthong
“mouth”
[aʊ] back-closing diphthong
“near”
[ɪə] centering diphthong
“care”
[eə] centering diphthong
“cure”
[ʊə] centering diphthong