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Height: high
Advancement: front
Lip Rounding: unrounded
Tense/lax: tense
/i/ ex: fleet, we, teacher, piece
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the tongue is raised in the vicinity of the ___ palate for /i/
hard
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the highest and most fronted of all vowels and represents the extreme part of the vowel quadrilateral. It is referred to as on of the ____ vowels
/i/, point
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All of the point vowels
/i/, /u/, /a/, and /æ/
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during the production of /i/, the mandible is ____, because the ____ is in a high position
raised, tongue
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Height: high (lower than /i/)
Advancement: front
Lip Rounding: unrounded
Tense/lax: lax
/I/ ex: flit, whittle, inside, prince
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a vowel is perceived as having an "r" quality or "r-coloring"
rhotacization
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_ colored vowels such as /I/ + /r/ possess an auditory quality known as rhotacization
r-colored vowels or rhotic diphthong
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Height: high-mid
Advancement: front
Lip Rounding: unrounded
Tense/lax: tense
- /e/ ex: chaotic, gyrate, phonate, mandate
- /eI/ ex: away, toupee, create, table, braid
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/eI/ is an ____ of /e/
allophone
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/eI/ occurs in ____ syllables and at the ___ of words (regardless of stress)
stressed, ends
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The diphthongal allophone is comprised of the onglide /e/ plus the offglide /I/
/eI/
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/e/ generally occurs in ____ syllables
unstressed
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Height: low-mid
Advancement: front
Lip Rounding: unrounded
Tense/lax: lax
/ɛ/ (epsilon) ex: met, steady, pretend, relish
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the vowel of /ɛ often occurs before the consonant ___
/r/
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/ɛr/ is another example of an
r-colored vowel, or rhotic diphthong
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Height: low
Advancement: front
Lip rounding: unrounded
Tense/lax: lax
/æ/ (ash) ex: trash, thank, jazz, stand, alabama
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/æ/ is the ____ of the five front vowels and is one of the four ___ vowels
lowest, point
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the size of the oropharynx is ____ for /æ/ because the tongue body is in an inferior and posterior position
small
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no monosyllables end in ____
/æ/
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Front vowels:
/i/, /I/, /e/, /eI/, /ɛ/, /æ/
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Back Vowels:
/u/, /ʊ/, /o/, /oʊ/, /ɔ/, /ɑ/
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Height: hight
Advancement: back
Lip rounding: rounded
Tense/lax: tense
/u/ ex: chew, futile, Truman, clue
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/u/ and /i/ are the two ____ vowels in English
highest
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all of the back vowels are approximate _____ images of their front vowel counterparts in terms of ____
mirror, height
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because of its extremely high back tongue position, /u/ is considered to be a ______, or corner vowel
point
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/u/ is a ____ vowel, it is found at the ___ of one-syllable words like in through, you, and true
tense, end
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Height: hight (lower than /u/)
Advancement: back
Lip rounding: rounded
Tense/lax: lax
/ʊ/ (upsilon) ex: could, should, full, stood
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open syllables dont end in ____ vowels
lax
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/ʊ/ + /r/ is considered a
r-colored vowel
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when the allograph "oo" is followed by /l/ (as in pool, cool, fool, and tool) the resulting pronunciation may be either ____ or ____ depending on the dialect
/ʊ/ or /u/
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Height: hight-mid
Advancement: back
Lip rounding: rounded
Tense/lax: tense
- /o/ ex: bodacious, riboflavin, croatian, rotation
- /oʊ/ ex: cone, bowl, stoic, slower
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/oʊ/ is an allophone of ____, because the syllables are either _____ or at the ____ of a word
/o/, stresses, end
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in beLOW vs BELLow one is stressed and the other is not. However both are transcribed as /oʊ/ because this sound ____ both words
ends
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Height: low-mid
Advancement: back
Lip rounding: rounded
Tense/lax: tense
/ɔ/ (open o) ex: prawn, awl, all, thought, frog
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Height: low
Advancement: back
Lip rounding: unrounded
Tense/lax: tense
/ɑ/ ex: rotten, father, bond, stop
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/ɑ/ is a ____ vowel due to the tongue's extremely ___ back articulation position
point, low
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/ɑ/ + /r/ form the ________ vowel /ɑr/
r-colored. ex: bark, art
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