This work is about the English vowels and their description phonologicaly

1. Inglés Cuarto semestre
Luis Vásconez
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/