Phonetics: Vowels

1
Phonetics Vowels
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

• Tense Monophthongs
• Lax Monophthongs
• Diphthongs

4
Tense Vowels are made with a relatively tense
tongue and greater vocal tract constriction
5
Tense Vowels are made with a relatively tense
tongue and greater vocal tract constriction

• i high front unrounded
• ey mid front unrounded
• uw high back rounded
• o mid back rounded
• ? low back unrounded

Beat Bait Boot Boat Bought
6
Lax vowels are made with a placement of the
tongue that results in relatively less vocal
tract constriction

• ? high front unrounded
• ? mid front unrounded
• æ low front unrounded
• ? mid central unrounded
• ? mid central unrounded

Bit Bet Bat But About
7
Diphthongs

• ?i lake, day
• ai like, try
• oi boil, boy
• ou go, hope
• au cloud, cow
• i? dear, idea
• ?? care, hair
• u? fluent, sure

8
IPA Vowels
9
Transcription to Spelling

• Whose
• Calm
• Deaf
• Ache
• Prayer
• Comb
• Shove
• Debt
• Friend

• huwz
• K?lm
• d?f
• ?ik
• prei?r
• kowm
• ??v
• d?t
• fr?nd

10
Spelling to Transcription

• Heart
• Yatch
• Rhyme
• Brake
• Women
• Plumber

• h?rt
• y?t
• r?im
• br?ik
• w?m?n
• pl?m?r

11
Write the spelling of the following transcription

• dæt? k?mp??ld b?i ð? yuwn?v?rs?di ?v nowr?
  k?rowl?in?z næ??n?l s?nt?r fowr kæd?str?f?k
  spowrts ?nj?ri ris?rt? s?its 67 f?it?l owr
  l?if-?r?t?ni? ?nj?riz duw tuw t?i?rlidi? s?ns
  1982, m?ki? ?t b?i f?r ð? mowst p?r?l?s spowrt
  fowr h?i skuwl ænd k?lid?-aid? fim?l æ?lits,
  t?im.k?m ripowrts.
• Data compiled by the University of North
  Carolina's National Center for Catastrophic
  Sports Injury Research (NCCSI) cites 67 fatal or
  life-threatening injuries due to cheerleading
  since 1982, making it by far the most perilous
  sport for high school and college-age female
  athletes, Time.com reports.