Transcription
Monophthongs
Diphthongs
Articulatory Description
Do you /ɹilɪ/ know your vowels?
100

The IPA symbol for the front vowel in the word "dread."

What is /ɛ/?

100

These four articulatory features are used to classify monophthongs.

What are height, advancement, tenseness, roundedness?

100

The number of distinct articulatory positions in a diphthong.

What is two?

100

This articulator is identified in the lectures as the primary articulator for vowel production.

What is the tongue?

100

This cardinal vowel is found at the top, front corner of the vowel quadrilateral and is unrounded.

What is /i/?

200

The IPA symbols for the back vowels in the words "boat" and "claw."

What are /o͡ʊ/ and /ɑ/?

200

This monophthong appears in the word “put” and is classified as high, back, lax, and rounded.

What is /ʊ/?

200

This is the name of the second element in a diphthong.

What is offglide?

200

These are front vowels.

What is /i/, /ɪ/, /e/, /ɛ/, 

/æ/?

200

These vowels all have one thing in common: /i/, /ɪ/,

 /e/, /ɛ/, /æ/.

What are front vowels?

300

These IPA symbols represent the central vowels in the words "dusted," "supper," and "earner."

What are 

/ʌ/, /ə/

/ʌ/, /ɚ/

and /ɝ/, /ɚ/?

300

This monophthong vowel symbol appears in the word “cat” and is classified as low, front, lax, and unrounded.

What is /æ/?

300

This symbol is commonly used to connect the two vowel elements in a diphthong.

What is tiebar?

300

This articulator is responsible for rounding and when it protrudes lengthens the vocal tract.

What are lips?

300

The name of this vowel is the unstressed version of the wedge 

/ʌ/.

What is the Schwa /ə/?

400

The verb “live” and the adjective “live” are distinguished by these IPA vowel symbols.

What are /ɪ/ and /a͡ɪ/?

400

This vowel is a high front monophthong in the word "see."

What is /i/?

400

The diphthong found in the word “coat.”

What is /o͡ʊ/?

400

A high, back, rounded, tense and cardinal vowel.

What is /u/?

400

One of these vowels just doesn’t belong here: /oʊ/, /ʌ/, /ɚ/.

What is the unstressed vowel 

/ɚ/?

500

Not all of these IPA vowel transcriptions are correct:

urban /ɝ/, /ə/

slumber /ʌ/, /ɪ/

classy /ɑ/, /i/

What are slumber (/ʌ/, /ɚ/) and classy (/æ/, /ɪ/)?

500

These monophthong vowels are point/cardinal vowels on the vowel quadrilateral.

What are /i/, /u/, /æ/, /ɑ/?

500

The key diphthong found in the word “bite.”

What is /a͡ɪ/?

500

This distinction explains why the vowel sound in "bird" is longer and clearer than the vowel sound in the final syllable of the word "teacher."

What is the difference between stressed and unstressed “er” vowels?

500

This term refers to the production of a phoneme with the “r” quality in vowels /ɝ/ and /ɚ/.

What is “rhoticity/rhotacization (r-colored)?”

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