English and American vowels

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
These words have the same vowel in GA, but
different vowels in RP

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English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
TRAP words have the same vowel in GA, but
different vowels in RP

RP
gas grass fancy dance maths bath half after

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
TRAP words have the same vowel in GA, but
different vowels in RP

GA
gas grass fancy dance maths bath half after

To summarize:

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
The LOT vowel

Write down what you hear

possible
BE passive passable

AE

passable
possible

_____

BE passive passable possible

AE passable possible

_____

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
The LOT vowel

RP

LOT
hot dog cop forest

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
The LOT vowel
IN GA, LOT words are pronounced as PALM

RP

LOT
hot dog cop forest

GA

PALM

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
The LOT vowel
IN GA, LOT words are pronounced as PALM;
in some accents, some of them have the LOT
or THOUGHT vowel

hot dog cop forest

GA

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
The LOT vowel
IN GA, LOT words are pronounced as PALM;
in some accents, some of them have the LOT
or THOUGHT vowel
Some
hot dog cop forest
American
LOT
accents:

THOUGHT

From the webpage:

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words
The LOT vowel
Centring diphthongs
No centring diphthongs in GA

NONRHOTIC
RHOTIC
NEAR

i0

ir

SQUARE

e0

er

CURE

u0

ur

English and American vowels

TRAP and BATH words

The LOT vowel
Centring diphthongs
Vowel length in GA not significant
Option of omitting length sign ( )

English and American vowels

Vowel length in GA not significant
Option of omitting length sign
(Note: a mistake often made in past exams is to conclude from this
that GA vowels are generally SHORTER than RP vowels.
Not so. We leave off the length mark because length is not
significant, not because the vowel is short. In fact GA TENSE
vowels are long, like unclipped RP tense vowels; but LAX vowels in
GA can be lengthened, unlike RP lax vowels