EN372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Diphthong, Upsilon, Sound
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Features of vowels: high point of tongue- front/central/back, position of tongue height- high (front / low (back, the position of the lips rounded or unrounded, nasalized /oral, length of articulation- long/short, tension of tongue tense/lax, short/long. Schwa: modern english central vowel, ipa [upside-down e] as in soda or sun mid-central lax unrounded. Dipthongs: ipa [ei] as in eye- mid-front to high front, tense, glide. It is represented in oe, me, as ipa {e] Represents one of the biggest changes from old/middle to modern english as previously there were only 2 dsounds for i : ipa [o upsilon] as in load- mid-back to high back position. Better bc they represent individual sounds and not combos: roman most commonly used now developed from atruscans, germanics replaced by roman in the n, 53- dream of the rude : Ruthwell cross: dates from approx. the 8th cen, ruthwell, northumbria, smashed by protestants and pieced back together in 1843.
