vowels and diphthongs Flashcards
/i/
high front - tense
long e
beat
/ɪ/
high front - lax
short i
bit
/e/
mid front - tense
long a
bait
/ɛ/
mid front - lax
short e
bet
/æ/
low front - lax
short a
bat
/u/
high back
moon, suit, stew, glue
/ʊ/
high back
book, hood, sugar
/o/
mid back
open, rotation, sew
/ɔ/
mid back
fall, haul, thought, wrong
/ɑ/
low back
daughter, odd, latte
/ə/
unstressed schwa
about, tuna, relevant
/ʌ/
stressed schwa
cut, mud, flood, wonderful
/ɚ/
unstressed schwa-er
butter, treasure, perterb
/ɝ/
stressed schwa-er
first, reverse, purple
/aɪ/
low front - high front
buy, tie, ice, eye,
/aʊ/
low front - high back
sour, town, house
/ɔɪ/
mid back-high front
toy, join, exploit
/ju/
high front-high back
you, cute, music
/ɪr/
“ear”
fear
/ɛr/
“air”
fair, errand,
/ʊr/
“ir”
lure, tour
(not rhyming with core)
/ɔr/
“or”
board, score, corn
/ɑr/
“ar”
car, army
rhotic sounds
r colored vowels
diphthong
two distinct articulatory positions in vocal tract; individual phoneme with two vowels
monothong
one vowel sound a d one primary articulatory position in vocal tract
vowels
produced without any constrictions or blockage of air in the vocal tract
5 english vowels, but 14 sounds
sounds of vowels are produced by
lip rounding, tongue height, tongue advancement, tense/lax
