Phonetics - Anthropology

Glides [ j ] ‘yod’ palatal• as in ‘yes’ [jes], sigh [saj] [w] ‘waw’ labiovelar• as in ‘witch, which’ [h] glottal [ʍ] vl. labiovelar, Amer. ‘which’Vowels Tongue height• High (close): seat [i], sit [ɪ], suit [sut]• Mid: bait [e], bet [bɛt], boat [bot]• Low: (open) cat [kæt], cot [kɑt] Tongue position• Front: [i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ]• Central: butt [bʌt], sofa [sofə]• Back: [u, ʊ, o, ɒ]V’s cont’d Rounded• boot [but]• book [bʊk]• boat [bot]• tall [tɒl] Unrounded• all other English vowelsNames for Vowels close i [i] ‘he’close u [u] ‘who’ open i [ɪ] ‘hid’open u [ʊ] ‘hood’ close e [e] ‘hay’ close o [o] ‘hoe’ open e [ɛ] ‘head’ open o [ɔ] ‘haw’ nb: open o in Can. Eng. only in [ɔj] ash, digraph [æ] ‘had’ schwa [ə] ‘sofa’ wedge [ʌ] ‘duck’Diphthongs two vowel sounds in one syllable [aj] ‘eyes’ [ajz] [ʌj] ‘ice’ [ʌjs] [aw] ‘cloud’ [klawd] [ʌw] ‘clout’ [klʌwt] [ɔj] ‘boy’ [bɔj]Diphthongs cont’d Tense vowels in English are diphthongs• [ej] as in ‘hay’ [hej]• [ow] as in ‘hoe’ [how]• [ij] as in ‘he’ [hij]• [uw] as in ‘who’ [huw]• nb: the latter two are not usually written5