Transcription
The IPA symbol for the front vowel in the word "dread."
What is /ɛ/?
These four articulatory features are used to classify monophthongs.
What are height, advancement, tenseness, roundedness?
The number of distinct articulatory positions in a diphthong.
What is two?
This articulator is identified in the lectures as the primary articulator for vowel production.
What is the tongue?
This cardinal vowel is found at the top, front corner of the vowel quadrilateral and is unrounded.
What is /i/?
The IPA symbols for the back vowels in the words "boat" and "claw."
What are /o͡ʊ/ and /ɑ/?
This monophthong appears in the word “put” and is classified as high, back, lax, and rounded.
What is /ʊ/?
This is the name of the second element in a diphthong.
What is offglide?
These are front vowels.
What is /i/, /ɪ/, /e/, /ɛ/,
/æ/?
These vowels all have one thing in common: /i/, /ɪ/,
/e/, /ɛ/, /æ/.
What are front vowels?
These IPA symbols represent the central vowels in the words "dusted," "supper," and "earner."
What are
/ʌ/, /ə/
/ʌ/, /ɚ/
and /ɝ/, /ɚ/?
This monophthong vowel symbol appears in the word “cat” and is classified as low, front, lax, and unrounded.
What is /æ/?
This symbol is commonly used to connect the two vowel elements in a diphthong.
What is tiebar?
This articulator is responsible for rounding and when it protrudes lengthens the vocal tract.
What are lips?
The name of this vowel is the unstressed version of the wedge
/ʌ/.
What is the Schwa /ə/?
The verb “live” and the adjective “live” are distinguished by these IPA vowel symbols.
What are /ɪ/ and /a͡ɪ/?
This vowel is a high front monophthong in the word "see."
What is /i/?
The diphthong found in the word “coat.”
What is /o͡ʊ/?
A high, back, rounded, tense and cardinal vowel.
What is /u/?
One of these vowels just doesn’t belong here: /oʊ/, /ʌ/, /ɚ/.
What is the unstressed vowel
/ɚ/?
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/)?
These monophthong vowels are point/cardinal vowels on the vowel quadrilateral.
What are /i/, /u/, /æ/, /ɑ/?
The key diphthong found in the word “bite.”
What is /a͡ɪ/?
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?
This term refers to the production of a phoneme with the “r” quality in vowels /ɝ/ and /ɚ/.
What is “rhoticity/rhotacization (r-colored)?”