phonetics: vowels
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Phonetics: Vowels. Deny A. Kwary www.kwary.net. Vowel Qualities. The placement of the body of the tongue: Vertical: high – mid – low Horizontal: front – central – back The shape of the lips: Rounded – Unrounded The lowering of the velum: Nasal vowel - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Phonetics: Vowels
Deny A. KwaryDeny A. Kwary
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Vowel Qualities
The placement of the body of the tongue: Vertical: high – mid – low
Horizontal: front – central – back
The shape of the lips: Rounded – Unrounded
The lowering of the velum: Nasal vowel
The degree of the vocal tract contriction: Tense – Lax
Types of English Vowels
Short Monophthongs
Long Monophthongs
Diphthongs
Short Monophthongs []: high front unrounded
[]: mid front unrounded
[æ]: low front unrounded
[]: low central unrounded
[]: mid central unrounded
[]: high back unrounded
[]: low back rounded
Bit
Ten
Bad
Mud
About
Good
Not
Long Monophthongs [] = high front unrounded
deep, chief [] = low back unrounded
park, father [] = mid back rounded
war, talk [] = high back rounded
rule, move [] = mid central unrounded
herb, turn
Diphthongs [] = lake, day [] = like, try [] = boil, boy [] = go, hope [] = cloud, cow [] = dear, idea [] = care, hair [] = fluent, sure
IPA Vowels
You are the dinosaur. Return to your nest by treading only in those adjecent footprints (horizontally or vertically) where the word contains the [] vowel.
Transcription to Spelling1. Whose2. Calm3. Deaf4. Ache5. Prayer6. Comb7. Shove8. Debt9. Friend
1. [hu:z]2. [k:m]3. [def]4. [ek]5. [pr]6. [km]7. [v]8. [det]9. [frend]
Spelling to Transcription1. Heart
2. Yatch
3. Rhyme
4. Brake
5. Women
6. Plumber
1. [ht]
2. [jt]
3. [ram]
4. [brek]
5. [wmn]
6. [plm]
Write the spelling of the following transcriptionWrite the spelling of the following transcription
More than three hundred and thirty thousand of Britain’s poorest
children will lose their right to free school meals when social security
changes come into effect tomorrow.
Suprasegmental/Prosodic properties
Pitch: Tone: Pitch movement that is related to
differences in word meaning. Intonation: Pitch movement that is not related
to differences in word meaning. Stress:
(an) export vs. (to) export (an) object vs. (to) object
Transcribe the following words.Mark the stress.
1. Assignment
2. Computer
3. Dictionary
4. Exam
5. Grammar
6. Phonetics
1. [sanmnt]
2. [kmpjut]
3. [dknri]
4. [gzm]
5. [grm]
6. [fnetks]
Read this short extract. Mark the words with more than one syllable. Determine the position of the stress.
James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the
sudden disappearance of the island’s Governor and his
assistant. When he arrives, 007 begins to suspect that
the Governor’s absence is in some way linked to Dr No,
the reclusive owner of a remote island which lies
between Cuba and Jamaica.
Stress on 1st syllable: sudden, island, Governor, absence, Dr, owner, Cuba
Stress on 2nd syllable: Jamaica, investigate, assistant,arrives, begins, suspect, reclusive, remote, between,
Stress on 3rd syllable: disappearance, 007
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