Reviews

 What is the difference between consonants and vowels

 What is the difference between <> and []
 What is the difference between stops and fricatives?
- Name the 7 stops in english
- Name and pronounce the following [letters from IPA]
- What is an affricative?

Consonants vs. vowels

(1) Height
(2) Frontness/Backness
(3) Rounding
(4) Tenseness (tense or lax)

Tongue position is important (tongue is flexible)

What you need to know about vowels for OE

 Front vowels: [I, e, £] (bead, made, bed)

 Back vowels: [u, U, o, opposite c] (food, full, no, not)
 Difference between [y] and [j] (German über, French tu – yellow)
 Difference between [i] and [I] (sea, sit)
 Description of [upside down e]? (a, about, terrible)

Diphtongs

 All previously mentioned vowels are monophthongs (e.g., /i/)

 Diphtongs are a (Vowel + Glide) OR (Glide + Vowel)
 Naïve [a] + [i] OR [aj] (Standard IPA is [aI]
 [aI] as in my [maI]
 [aU] as in ouch [aUt(IPAletter)]
 The front vowels [e:]is also diphtongized in Standard English
Example: say, play, lay
 [e:j]  [eI]
 Non-standard varieties of BrE say [se:] [ple:] and [le:]