CLASSIC 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joule, Diphthong, Idiolect
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[i with no dot]: hit, win, ll, women (george bernard shaw: playwright of pygmalion, my. [e]: say, made, plain (cf. quiz question [fet]: fate) [upside down e]: about, alone, sofa (^ in monosyllables or in accented syllables) upside. [upside down e] and [no dot i] are hard to distinguish; usage varies by dialect and occurs only in unaccented syllables speaker (idiolect) [a]: job, pot, mop (sometimes low central vowel) **open c and [a]: lots of dialectal variation in some dialects, even reversed [pa]: paw or. Sample words for diphthongs: eye, cry, ride, pie, loud, how, now, boy, joint, foil. *the 2nd element (to which the rst vowel glides ); much like glides [j] and [w]: [aj, [aw, [open c j] a note on [i], [u], [e], [o] these four are treated as pure vowels more strictly: diphthongs. [o]=[ow] but their possible representations are very varied for [e]: say, made. [epsilon no dot i], [epsilon j], [ej], [epsilon no dot i]
