vowel basics
Phonemes produced without any appreciable blockage of airflow in the vocal tract.
What is vowel?
The diphthong in "buy".
What is /aI/?
The primary articulator in vowel production.
What is tongue?
The vowel in "moon" /u/ is this lip position.
What is rounded?
Transcribe the vowel in "bit".
What is /I/?
Size and shape of _ changes accordingly.
What is pharynx?
The diphthong is "toy".
What is /ɔI/?
/ʌ/ and /ə/ differ mainly in this feature.
What is stress? /ʌ/ = stressed, /ə/ = unstressed
All English front vowels are this. Hint: rounded or unrounded
What is unrounded?
Transcribe the stressed vowel in "but".
What is /ʌ/?
English has this many vowels (not including dipthongs)
What is 14?
The vowel sound in "coat" (/koʊt/) begins at _ and glides toward _?
What is /o/ and /ʊ/?
The tongue height for the right-hook reversed epsilon (/ɝ/) is mid. True or False?
What is TRUE? The tongue height is mid.
Give one example of a tense vowel.
What is /i, e, u, o, ɔ, a, ɝ/?
Transcribe the diphthong in "cow".
What is /aʊ/?
These two dimensions define the vowel quadrilateral.
What are tongue height and tongue advancement?
In English diphthongs, the tongue always moves in this direction from onglide to offglide.
What is upward?
The vowel /i/ is called this type of "point vowel"
What is the highest and most fronted vowel?
List one rounded English vowel.
What are /u, ʊ, o, ɔ, ɚ, ɝ/?
Transcribe the vowel in "heard".
What is /ɝ/?
The vowel in "keep" is this type of vowel.
What is a high front tense unrounded vowel (/i/)?
Offglide is the first vowel in a diphthong. True or False?
What is FALSE? Offglide is the second vowel in a diphthong. Onglide is the first.
The vowel in "father" /a/ has this tongue position. Hint: Height + advancement
What is low back?
Lax vowel can be located in the final position of an open monosyllable. True or False?
What is FALSE? Lax vowels cannot appear in the final position of an open monosyllable.
Transcribe the word "murder".
What is /mɝdɚ/?