Task 3 – Vowel Sounds

Yanci Karine Betancourt Guevara

Group: 518014_43

Tutor: Yennifer Vanessa Murcia

English phonetics

Universidad nacional abierta y adistancia UNAD

25 October 21
Step 1: Link of the Video:
https://youtu.be/Etg7cQJJDiY
Step 2:

Task 3_Transcription Exercises

Vowel sounds

1. Name the tongue position for each vowel. The first one is
done for you:
a) /ʌ/ Mid
b) /ʊ/ Close
c) /ɪ/ close
d) /ɔ:/ Mid
e) /æ/ Open

2. Write only the symbols of the vowel sounds contained in the

following words, remember to write each symbol in slashes
(//).
 The first one is done for you.
Word Symbols of the vowel sounds
snub /ʌ/

bull /ʊ/
letter /ɛ/
keep /iː/
Gear /ɪ/
 3. As you already know consonant and vowel symbols,
transcribe from IPA alphabet to regular English letters the
following text:

/westən jʊərəp həd biːn dɪˈskʌsɪŋ kɒnsəpts sʌʧ əz səˈsteɪnəbl ̩

dɪˈveləpmənt fə nɪərlɪ twentɪ jɪərz ət ðæt pɔɪnt/

Transcription:
Western Europe…had been design concepts

4. Transcribe from regular English letter (graphemes) to IPA

symbols (phonemes) the following text.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It

was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly
worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the
miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish
Catholic childhood. (from Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt)

Transcription:

wɛn aɪ lʊk…
bæk ɒn maɪ ˈʧaɪldhʊd aɪ ˈwʌndə haʊ aɪ səˈvaɪvd æt ɔːl. ɪt wɒz, ɒv kɔːs,
ə ˈmɪzərəbl ˈʧaɪldhʊd: ðə ˈhæpi ˈʧaɪldhʊd ɪz ˈhɑːdli wɜːθ jɔː waɪl. wɜːs ð
æn ði ˈɔːdnri ˈmɪzərəbl ˈʧaɪldhʊd ɪz ðə ˈmɪzərəbl ˈaɪərɪʃ ˈʧaɪldhʊd, ænd
wɜːs jɛt ɪz ðə ˈmɪzərəbl ˈaɪərɪʃ ˈkæθəlɪk ˈʧaɪldhʊd.
(frɒm ˈænʤələz ˈæʃɪz baɪ fræŋk McCourt)
 5. Write a word that includes each diphthong.
 The first one is done for you.

Symbol Word
a) / aɪ/ Cry
b) /eɪ/ Day
c) /əʊ/ Go
d) /aʊ/ How
e) / ɪə/ here

tep 3: Choose 4 of the 8 diphthongs that exist in English and create a diagram for
the initial and final movements of the 4 diphthongs, just one diagram for the four
diphthong sounds.

 Diphthong: /ɪə/
 Word: Year

 Diphthong: /ʊə/
 Word: our
  Diphthong: /eɪ/
 Word: Say

 Diphthong: /aɪ/
 Word: by

References:

The Articulation of English Sounds. In Introductory Phonetics and Phonology of

English. (pp. 15-20). Focus on the information related to vowel and diphthong
sounds

https://www.englishhub.co.in/2021/01/guide-to-the-vowel-sounds-
and-diphthongs-of-the-english-language.html