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Phonetics: Vowels

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

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Phonetics: Vowels

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  1. Phonetics: Vowels Deny A. Kwary www.kwary.net

  2. 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

  3. Types of English Vowels • Short Monophthongs • Long Monophthongs • Diphthongs

  4. Short Monophthongs Bit Ten Bad Mud About Good Not • []: high front unrounded • []: mid front unrounded • [æ]: low front unrounded • []: low central unrounded • []: mid central unrounded • []: high back unrounded • []: low back rounded

  5. 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

  6. Diphthongs • [] = lake, day • [] = like, try • [] = boil, boy • [] = go, hope • [] = cloud, cow • [] = dear, idea • [] = care, hair • [] = fluent, sure

  7. IPA Vowels

  8. You are the dinosaur. Return to your nest by treading only in those adjecent footprints (horizontally or vertically) where the word contains the [] vowel.

  9. Transcription to Spelling • [hu:z] • [k:m] • [def] • [ek] • [pr] • [km] • [v] • [det] • [frend] • Whose • Calm • Deaf • Ache • Prayer • Comb • Shove • Debt • Friend

  10. Spelling to Transcription • [ht] • [jt] • [ram] • [brek] • [wmn] • [plm] • Heart • Yatch • Rhyme • Brake • Women • Plumber

  11. Write 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.

  12. 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

  13. Transcribe the following words.Mark the stress. • Assignment • Computer • Dictionary • Exam • Grammar • Phonetics • [sanmnt] • [kmpjut] • [dknri] • [gzm] • [grm] • [fnetks]

  14. 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

  15. That's All for Today See You Next Week Deny A. Kwary www.kwary.net

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