VOCALE, DIFTONGI, TRIFTONGI

VOWELS, DIPHTONGS, TRIPHTONGS

I. VOWELS
[i:] (a long vowel) - he, please[pli:z], sheep, field, key, scene;
[i] (a short vowel) - it, is [iz] , savage, guilt, system, women;
[e] (a short vowel) - desk, many [meni], any, said, bread, bury, friend;
[æ] - a short vowel ,fat, man[mæn], bad, plaid, paugh, calf;
[a:] (a long vowel)- are, aren't [a:nt], father, calm, brother;
[o:] (a long vowel)- tall [o:l], all, caught, ball, board, draw, four, floor;
[o] (a short vowel) - hot, office['ofis], pot, waich, laurel;
[u:] - goose, boot [bu:t], who, more, shoe, group, flew, blue, rude; (a long vowel)
[u] - god, book [buk], put, wood, wolf, could; (a short vowel)
[Λ]/ [a]-glove, but [bΛt], cut, some, blood, does; (a short vowel)
[ɘ:] - girl, bird, burn, fern, warm, earn, journal: [bɘ:d] (a long vowel)
[ɘ] - a, an, and [ɘnd], cupboard, the, coour, actor(a short vowel)

II. DIPHTONGS (i.e. two vowols pronunced together)

SYMBOL SPELLINGS
[ei] - table, lady, make, pray, prey, steak, vein, gauge;
[leidi]
[ɘu]/[ou] - open, only, note, soap, soul, grow, sew, toe;
[ounli]
[ai] - I, my, bite, pie, buy, try, guide, sigh;
[mai]
[au] - house, brown, nouw, spout, plought;
[braun]
[oi] - boy, toy, poison, lawyer;
[toi]
[iɘ] - here, near, beer, weir, appear, fierce;
[niɘ]
[ea] - Mary, pair, there, hair, bear, bare, their, prayer;
[pea]
[uɘ] - poor, tourist, tour, sure
[tuɘrist]
III. TRIPHTONGS (i.e. three vowels pronunced together)
SYMBOL SPELLINGS
[eia] - player ['pleia]
[ɘua] - lower [lɘua]
[aiɘ] - fire ['faiɘ]
[auɘ] - flower ['flauɘ]
[oiɘ] - employer [im'ploiɘ]

I. SEMIVOWELS
SYMBOL SPELLINGS
[w] - we, what [wot], one, when, queen;
[j] - you, yes [jes], onion, use, new, Europe.

II. CONSONANTS
A. B.
SYMBOL KEY WORDS + COMMON SPELLINGS
1) [p] pencil ['pens'], pen, happy;
2) [b] blackboard ['blækb):d], bright, back, rubber;
3) [t] too [tu:], two, tea, butter, walket, doubt;
4) [d] door [d):], day, ladder, called, could;
5) [k] classroom ['klassroom], key, cool, coccer, lock, school;
6) [g] green [gri:n], get, bigger, ghost, grey, gap, garden;
7) [f] four [f):], figure, fast, fashion, fat, coffee, cough, half;
8) [v] very ['veri], navy, view, navvy (i.e. excavating machine);
9) [m] map [mæp], hammer, calm, bomb;
10) [n] new [nju:], funny, know, gnaw;
11) [ŋ] morning ['m):niŋ], sung, sink;
12) [l] lesson ['lesn], balloon, battle;
13) [ø] three [øri:], thing, think, thin;
14) [ð] this [jis], that, these, those, with, then, than;
15) [s] student ['stju-d(a)nt], city, psychology, mess, scene;
16) [z] zero ['ziarou], was, dazzle, example;
17) [∫] she [∫i:], fichins, sure, station, tension, vicious, chevron;
18) [3] measure ['me3a], leasure, vision, rouge;
19) [t∫] chair [t∫ea], match, nature, question, cello;
20) [d3] john [d3)n], age, edge, soldier, gradual;
21) [r] red [red], marry, wriggle;
22) [h] hew [hau], hot, whole, who;
23) [x] loch [lox].