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Flashcards by Paula Baipas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Paula Baipas
about 6 years ago
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| Class of sound which makes the least obstruction to the flow of air. Almost always founded at the centre of a syllable. | |
| Each vowel has a number of properties that distinguish it from other vowels. | |
| SHAPE OF THE LIPS | Rounded (u:) Neutral (ə ) Spread (as in smile or i:) |
| 1) Front vowels 2) Middle vowels 3) Back vowels | |
| -The front part of the tongue is raised -Examples: /i:/ /æ/ ('cat') | |
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Gb (binary/octet-stream)
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-They are result of a position where the lips are not noticeably rounded or spread -Examples: /ə/ and /3:/ |
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Ba (binary/octet-stream)
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-The back of the tongue is the highest point -Examples: /ɑ:/ ('cart') |
| CLOSE/OPEN or HIGH/LOW | -The tongue (and the lower jaw) may be: Raised close to the roof of the mouth /i:/ 'see' Left low in the mouth with the jaw open /æ/ 'cat' |
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SHORT and LONG
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Perrin (binary/octet-stream)
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Differecnces in lenght and quality (differences in tongue shape and position, lip position, etc) |
| SHORT VOWELS -Vowel sounds that are pronounced in a short form. In RP English the short vowel sounds are those in 'pet', 'pot', 'put', 'putt', 'pat' and 'pit', and the schwa sound. | /e/ /ɪ/ /æ/ /ʌ/ /ɒ/ /ʊ/ |
| LONG VOWELS -Tends to be longer than short vowels in similar contexts | /iː/ /3:/ /aː/ /ɔ:/ /uː/ |
| DIPTHONGS: The most important feature of a diphthong is that it contains a glide from one vowel quality to another one. BBC English contains a large number of diphthongs | |
| there are: -three ending in ɪ (eɪ, aɪ, ɔɪ) - two ending in ʊ (əʊ, aʊ) -three ending in ə (ɪə, eə, ʊə). |
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