ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY I

ENGLISH PHONEMIC ALPHABET

2019

Equipo de Cátedra
Titular: Prof. Mgter. María Verónica Segura

Colaboradoras: Prof. Mgter. Liliana Pérez

Prof. Marcela Meyebovsky

Jefas de Trabajos Prácticos: Prof. Carolina Ríos

Prof. Celeste Luna

Prof. Belén Traetta

Adscripta: Prof. Mercedes Romero Day

 Standard Lexical Sets
Wells, J. C. (1982) Accents of English, ch. 2.2

Consonants Vowels

p pen, copy, happen ɪ KIT, bid, hymn, minute

b back, baby, job e DRESS, bed, head, many

t tea, tight, button æ TRAP, bad

d day, ladder, odd ɒ LOT, odd, wash

k key, clock, school ʌ STRUT, mud, love, blood

g get, giggle, ghost ʊ FOOT, good, put

tʃ church, match, nature iː FLEECE, sea, machine

dʒ judge, age, soldier eɪ FACE, day, break

f fat, coffee, rough, photo aɪ PRICE, high, try

v view, heavy, move ɔɪ CHOICE, boy

θ thing, author, path uː GOOSE, two, blue, group

ð this, other, smooth əʊ GOAT, show, no

s soon, cease, sister aʊ MOUTH, now

z zero, music, roses, buzz ɪə NEAR, here, weary

ʃ ship, sure, national eə SQUARE. fair, various

ʒ pleasure, vision ɑː PALM, start, father

h hot, whole, ahead ɔː THOUGHT, law, north, war

m more, hammer, sum ʊə CURE, poor, jury, cure

n nice, know, funny, sun ɜː NURSE, stir, learn, refer

ŋ ring, anger, thanks, sung ə (SCHWA), about, common, standard

l light, valley, feel i (WEAK FLEECE), happy, radiate. glorious

right, wrong, sorry, (WEAK GOOSE), thank you, influence,
r u
arrange situation
j yet, use, beauty, few n̩ suddenly, cotton

w wet, one, when, queen l̩ middle, metal

 English Phonemic Alphabet with key words

VOWELS

VOWEL SOUND WORD WORD WORD

CLASSIFICATION INITIAL MEDIAL FINAL

FRONT VOWEL  eat feed knee

FRONT VOWEL  inch live city

pretty

(In this context,

the KIT is old-
fashioned)
FRONT VOWEL /e/ egg leg

FRONT VOWEL  apple mad

CENTRAL VOWEL  earth bird prefer

CENTRAL VOWEL // away family better

CENTRAL VOWEL  other love

BACK VOWEL  office dog

BACK VOWEL  almost brought door

BACK VOWEL  umlaut book

BACK VOWEL  ooze food zoo

BACK VOWEL  ask card far

 DIPHTHONGS

CLASSIFICATION SOUND WI WM WF

FRONT  ice write sky

FRONT  able make day

FRONT  oil voice boy

CENTRING  ear fear dear

CENTRING  air stairs dare

CENTRING  surely poor

BACK  out house cow

BACK  oak boat know

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Nowadays, this diphthong is pronounced as a monophthong //.
 CONSONANTS

Plosives

Sound WI WM WF Initial Final

cluster cluster
 pain simply cheap play kept

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 big husband club brain table

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 ten after rat try little

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 day ready mad dry middle

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 car baker rock skin milk

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 go bigger leg glass eagle

Affricates

Sound WI WM WF Initial Final

cluster cluster
 church nature bench watched

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 jar urgent large judged

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 Fricatives

Sound WI WM WF Initial Final

cluster cluster
 fish coffee enough fly left

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 voice never have view loved

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 think author mouth three length

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 this father with rhythm

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 sand passive race scream cats

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 zero easy noise legs

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 shoe mission wash shrink patient

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 genre pleasure beige illusions

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 hot behind

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 Nasals

Sound WI WM WF Initial Final

cluster cluster
 my summer name smell films

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 nose dinner nine snow listen

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 singer thing link

Approximants

Sound WI WM WF Initial Final

cluster cluster
Median red sorry It doesn’t occur in price
non-rhotic
accents


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Median word away twelve



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Median yes acute music



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Lateral lip yellow full slow cold
