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Phonetics II
Phonetics II
(Vowels)
Semester I
Try this:
• heat, hit, hat, hot
Vowel Height
Vowel Backness
• [i]
• [ɪ]
• [e]
• e.g. great, eight, locate, ballet
• [ɛ]
• [æ]
• [ə]
• [a]
• [u]
• [ʊ]
• [o]
• e.g. no, road, toe, hello, over
• [ɔ]
• [ɑ]
• Unrounded [i], [ɪ], [e], [ɛ], [æ], [ɑ], [ә], [a], [ʌ]
• vowel + glide
• [aw]
• [ɔj]
• [aj]
• e.g.
• [i]
• [u]