LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Diphthong, Monophthong, Joule
8 Oct 2016
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10/3/16
Quiz due tonight.
For Phonetics Assignment (Due Wednesday) Make sure to be specific.
To be able to describe a vowel:
• Height
• Position
• Tense/lax
• Roundness
Diphthong is a complex vowel.
• Move from one position in the mouth to another.
• Similar to an affricate, there are two different parts of sounds coming out of the mouth
• Popular dipthongs:
o The "oy" sound in boy. [ɔɪ] or [ɔi] or [ɔj] low-> high
o The "I" in bite [aj] low -> high
o The "ou" in about [aw] low -> back
American English loves dipthongs. Nearly all the tense vowels end with a "off glide"
Off-glide: relaxing of the mouth at the end of a tense vowel
Other languages such as Spanish or French don't do this quite as much as is seen with American English.
Rhotacization: vowels that mesh with "r" [ɹ]
• Monophthong:
o Bird, fur, her, herd
• Diphthongs:
o Beer, fear
o Bear, fare
o Tour, sure
o Four, more
o Bar, far
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