Phonetics, speech mechanism

& phonetic symbols

Montasir
Director & Associate Professor, IML, JnU
Speech mechanism
 Table 1: English monophthongs with Bangla near-equivalents (BNE)

Short BNE words Long BNE words

/i: / Long ই (ঈ)

/I/
ই hit, sitting see, heat

/ɜ:/ অ্যা turn, learn

/e/
এ met, bed Long

(অ্যাাঃ)

/ɑ:/ Long আ/আাঃ

/æ/
এযা cat, black arm, father

/ə/ very short away, cinema /u:/ Long উ (ঊ) blue, food

অ্যা
/ʌ/ আ cup, luck /ɔ:/ Long )ও) (ওাঃ) call, four
/ʊ/ উ put, could

/ɒ/ অ্ hot, rock

aɪ (আই) five, eye
aʊ (আউ) now, out how
eɪ (এই) say, eight
əʊ (অ্যাউ) go, home
ɔɪ (ঐ) boy, join
eə (এয়্য) where, air
ɪə (ইয়্য) near, here
ʊə (য়্যউ) pure, tourist
S (ছ) sun, miss
ʃ (শ) she, crash

check, church
tʃ (চ)

Z (য) zoo, lazy

ʒ (জ & ঝ)
pleasure, vision
dʒ (জ) just, large
Become

flew,

Begun

Buy

eaten
Heard

Take
Thought

Choose

meet
Become |bɪˈkʌm|

Flew |fluː|

Begun |bɪˈɡʌn|

Buy |baɪ|

Eaten |ˈiːtən|
Heard |hɜːd|

Take |teɪk|

Thought |θɔːt|

Choose |tʃuːz|
Meet |miːt|