04 Vowels
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• The 6 lax vowels are ALWAYS SHORT
• fen fenn• bit• not• very verry• television tellevision
(“telly”)
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• The 6 lax vowels are ALWAYS SHORT
• fen fenn• bit bitt.....?• not nott....?• very verry• television tellevision
(“telly”)
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• English vowels MUST NOT BE PREASPIRATED
• not nott (noht)• bit bitt (biht)• stop stopp (stohp)• better better (behter)• supper supper
(söhper)
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KIT
DRESS
TRAP
STRUT
LOT
FOOT
CLOSE (HIGH
BA
CKF
RO
NT
OPEN (LOW)
FLEECE
NURSE
PALM
THOUGHT
GOOSE
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But words spelled with -ear-, –ere-, -eir-
are variable -SQUARE
bear pear wearheir their
where therethey’re
NEARfear clear rear
weirherewe’reideahero
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Vowels - summary
Learn chart positions:• front – central - back• close (high) – mid – open (low
Learn symbols and keywords for• 6 lax vowels + “schwa”• 5 tense vowels• 8 diphthongs (diphthongs are also tense vowels)
Difference between lax and tense vowels
• lax vowels are short• tense vowels are long but are subject to clipping
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Clipping
A tense vowels (or diphthong) is
CLIPPED (shortened) when a fortis
consonant immediately follows it.
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Preview:FORTIS and LENIS consonants
16 consonants occur in PAIRS, fortis and lenis
FORTIS consonants are unovoicedLENIS consonants are often (but not always) voiced
(This is not the only distinction between fortis and lenis. We’ll discuss this later.)
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