Phonology of English vowels
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This document discusses English vowel phonemes and their phonetic features. It defines a phoneme as the minimal contrastive sound unit in a language's phonological system. Phonemes are identified by looking for minimal pairs, where words differ by only one sound. Then it provides tables describing the phonetic features of 14 different English vowel phonemes, including their position in words. The features discussed are front/back, high/mid/low, tense/lax, rounded/unrounded, simple/complex, and voiced/unvoiced. Examples are given for each vowel phoneme.
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English vowel , monothongs, diphthong, triphthongs
The document discusses English vowel sounds, including monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs. It provides:
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Understandingthebasicsofpronunciation
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Understandingthebasicsofpronunciation
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Understandingthebasicsofpronunciation
This document provides an overview of pronunciation basics, including the classification of consonant and vowel sounds. It discusses the vocal organs involved in sound production and how consonants can be classified by place and manner of articulation, as well as voicing. It also covers how vowels are classified based on tongue position, height, and lip rounding. The document describes sound phenomena such as linking, reduction, deletion, and alteration of sounds. It introduces suprasegmentals of stress and intonation, and provides exercises for practicing different sounds and suprasegmental features.
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Phonology of English vowels
- 1. Plurilingüe Quinto semestre Mónica Sáenz Phonology of English vowels
- 2. Phonology studies the distribution and organization of sounds in a language and the interaction between those different sounds. Those sounds are called phonemes and phonology is a branch of linguistics that studies how phonemes function in a language. Phoneme.- A phoneme can be defined as the minimal significant contrastive unit in the phonological system.
- 3. Take the words PIT and BIT, they differ only in their initial sound, PIT begins with /p/ and BIT begins with /b/. Phonemes are normally put into slant lines / /. Pairs of words such as PIT and BIT or PIT and PUT which only have one different phoneme are known as minimal pairs and one way to identify the phonemes is to look for minimal pairs. Example: ◦ Leave /liyv/ ◦ Live /lɪv/
- 5. Phonetic features: Front High Tense Voiced Unrounded Simple Position initial: each medial: receive final: key Examples: leave /liyv/, beach /biytʃ/, seat /siyt/, believe /bɪliyv/
- 6. Phonetic features high front lax unrounded simple voiced Position initial: if medial: sit final: sunny Examples: hit /hɪt/, lip /lɪp/ , him /hɪm/ , been /bɪn/
- 7. Phonetic features mid front tense unrounded complex voiced Position initial: able medial: take final: pay Examples: aim /eym/, eight /eyt/, take /teyk/, wait /weit/
- 8. Phonetic features mid front lax unrounded simple voiced Position initial: egg medial: bread final: -------- Examples: end /ɛnd/, friend /frɛnd/, get /gɛt/, guess /gɛs/
- 9. Phonetic features low front unrounded lax simple voiced Position initial: apple medial: car final: -------- Examples: am /æm/, at /æt/, answer /ænsɚ/, bad /bæd/
- 10. Phonetic features low central lax unrounded simple Voiced Position initial: army medial: not final: Ma Examples: ah /ɑ/, occupy /ɑkyepay/, calm /kɑm/, hot /hɑt/
- 11. Phonetic features mid central lax/tense unrounded simple voiced Position initial: up medial: cut final: soda Examples: us /əs/, umpire /ʌmpayɚ/, blood /blʌd/, trouble /trʌbəl/
- 12. Phonetic features high back tense unrounded simple voiced Position initial: ooze medial: ruler final: do Examples: through /θruw/, whose /huwz/, juice /dʒuws/, too /tuw/
- 13. Phonetic features high back lax unrounded simple voiced Position initial: -------- medial: book final: -------- Examples: put /put/, butcher /butʃɚ/, cook /kuk/, sugar /ʃugɚ/
- 14. Phonetic features mid back tense unrounded simple voiced Position: initial: own medial: boat final: no Examples: oh /ow/, open /owpən/, home /howm/, boat /bowt/
- 15. Phonetic features mid back lax unrounded simple voiced Position initial: all medial: ball final: law Examples: also /ɔlsow/, halt /hɔlt/, organ /ɔrgən/, awful /ɔfəl/