Today we are going to learn the allophonic variants for English vowels. This is the last theoretical post of this subject. Were are going to design exercises for you to practise and they will appear in the next post. I hope you find them useful to reinforce your knowlege about the subject!
These are the allophonic symbols for the vowels:
[i]: "beat" [ɪ]: "bit" [e]: "bait" [ɜ]: "nurse"
[æ]: "bat" [ə]: "again" [ʌ]: "but" [u]: "boot"
[ʊ]: "book" [o]: "boat"* [ɔ]: "bought" [ɒ]: "bob"
[ɑ]: "bath"
*American Pronunciation.
This allophones are written along with other symbols that specify characteristics of the vowels. For example to important symbols are [ː] and [ ˜]. The first one means that the vowels is long (it appears after a vowel symbol) and the second one means that the vowel is nasalized (it appears above a vowel symbol).
That's all for today! I hope you find this useful. J
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