Vowels Flashcards
**/i/ **- in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Front
Vertical: High
Tenseness: Tense
Rounding: Unrounded
/ɪ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Front
Vertical: High
Tenseness: Lax
Rounding: Unrounded
/ɛ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Front
Vertical: Mid
Tenseness: Lax
Rounding: Unrounded
/eɪ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Front
Vertical: Mid
Tenseness: Tense
Rounding: Unrounded
/æ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Front
Vertical: Low
Tenseness: Lax
Rounding: Unrounded
/ʌ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Central
Vertical: Mid
Tenseness: Lax
Rounding: Semirounded
/ə/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Central
Vertical: Mid
Tenseness: Lax
Rounding: Semirounded
/ɜr/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Central
Vertical: Mid
Tenseness: Lax
Rounding: Semirounded
/ər/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Central
Vertical: Mid
Tenseness: Lax
Rounding: Semirounded
/ɑ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Central
Vertical: Low
Tenseness: Tense
Rounding: Semirounded
/ɔ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Back
Vertical: Low
Tenseness: Tense
Rounding: Rounded
/oʊ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Back
Vertical: Mid
Tenseness: Tense
Rounding: Rounded
/u/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Back
Vertical: High
Tenseness: Tense
Rounding: Rounded
/ʊ/ - in the vowel quadrant
Horizontal: Back
Vertical: High
Tenseness: Lax
Rounding: Rounded
**/i/ **- spelling patterns
- ee: meet, feel, see
- ea: team, reach, mean
- ie and ei: belief, piece, neither
- final e: me, we, she
- e + consonant + e: these, chinese
- final y: city, duty, country
- endings with -ique: unique, boutique
/ɪ/ - spelling patterns
- i: sit, give, dinner
- ui: guilty
- y between 2 consonants : hymn
- exceptions: been, women, busy
/ɛ/ - spelling patterns
- e: get, end, next
- ea: heavy, head, measure
- exceptions: said, says, again, against, any, many
/eɪ/ - spelling patterns
- a + consonant + e: late, came, take
- ai: rain, wait, pain
- ay: say, away, play
- ey: they, survey, obey
- eigh: weigh, eight, neighbour
- a:
/æ/ - spelling patterns
- a: hat, apple, man, answer, sand
/ʌ/ - spelling patterns
- u: but, fun, summer, sun
- o: love, done, come, once
- ou: cousin, country, enough
/ə/ - spelling patterns
many spelling patterns, only use in stressed syllables
/ɜr/ - spelling patterns
- er: her, mercy
- ear: heard, learn, earth
- ir: first, girl, firm
- or:
- ur:
- ure:
- ar:
/ər/ - spelling patterns
- er: thunder, teacher,
- ur: hurt, thursday
- ir: bird, dirt,
- or: perform
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/ɑ/ - spelling patterns
- o: hot, stop, modern, feel, see
- a: father, watch, dark
/ɔ/ - spelling patterns
- aw: saw, law, dawn
- au: author, august, audition
- al: small, walk, tall
- ought: bought, thought, fought
- aught: daughter, caught
- o: gone, off, long
/oʊ/ - spelling patterns
- o: no, don’t, home
- a: road, coat, boat
- ow: own, window, slow
- ough: though, although
/u/ - spelling patterns
- oo: fool, boost, hoop
- u: luke, tune, rude
- o: who, who’d
- ew: stewed
/ʊ/ - spelling patterns
- oo: meet, feel, see
- u: team, reach, mean
- ould: belief, piece, neither
- exception: woman
/aɪ/ - spelling patterns
- y: fly, sky, apply
- i: nice, kind, fine
- igh: light, fight, night
- ie: lie, tried, tie
/ɔɪ/ - spelling patterns
- oi: avoid, oil, join
- oy: enjoy, toy, employ
/aʊ/ - spelling patterns
- ou: found, loud, cloud
- ow: brown, down, now
