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48 Vowels and Consonants [45+aar, aur, air]....Same chart as graphic
NewsMar01 ssnJun01Phoneme Inventory as a compact chart
foneemz44 . saunds-english . fon invetoriOnly when the free vowel is followed by a consonant does it need to be distinguished from a closely related short vowel.
IPA-SAMPA & Broad Romic Vowel Notation
6 checked, 6 unchecked, 5 -6 diphthongs, 4 -7 with shwa
Chekt - short Free - long Difthongs 4 with schwa æ..{....(æ) a:..A: ..(a) ai..aI (ay) i
ac..a@ | aic aI@ at, ax, ask, cat alms, want, star 5 eye, ice, bite are, care | ire, fire e..e..(e) c:..3:.('') @@ ei..eI .(ey) ec..e@..(e') edge get, elbow 3 her, girl, urban ace, ape, vein air, care, there, barely i ...I..( i ) i: ..i:(iy) oi..oI.(oy) i:c ..I@..(i') it, in, index, ill eel, east, very oil, boy, loyal ear, fear, deer, mere o turned a ..Q o:..o:..(ao) ou..@U (oa) or ..o@.(o') ox, cot, otter awe, call, cost oh, oat, low for, four, floor, more u ..U .(u) u:..u:..(uu) ju ..yU uc ..u@..(u') hook, put, could ooze, zulu, zoo you, few, fuse your, sure, cure ^ V...(') c turned e @.(') au..aU (a') auc ..au@ (au') up, hut, cut, putt ago, sofa, unit out, down our, flower, power The IPA turned e, turned a, and turned c are unavailable in ASCII and Latin-1. The turned epsilon ' is available in the symbol font. c= in the chart
The peach.colored cells are not included in the Jones/Wijk essential phoneme inventory.
All checked vowels (vowels which are checked or stopped by a consonant) are short and all free vowels, with the exception of schwa are long. If a vowel occurs at the end of a word, it is by definition a free vowel and does not need to be distinguished from a checked vowel. Thus "sii h3: halou" could be "si ha halo."
Normally, this violates the principle of one symbol-one sound and moves toward positional spelling.
Checkt Spelling avoids this by not marking free vowels (marking the checked vowels instead). Chart as a graphic. Is stress phonemic?
staar, stor, staur caar, cor, caur, pal, paal, pol, paul, maal mol maul, taal, tol, taul, paat, pot, paut, pout, laa, lo, lau, law, low
A dictionary could be created that did not indicate vowels. Instead it would indicate all the words that had the consonants
in a particular sequence. st*r - staar, stor [store], sterr [stair, stare], stir [stear, steer], ster [stir], satyr,....spell the word as it sounds in Spanglish, then find the English spellings in the Spanglish Dictionary
st*r [spanglish] Traditional English spelling star where a = stir, sturdy, mon-ster [how do you stress?] staar, staary, starry star, starry, stair, stare ster/sterr/staer/starr/steir stair, stare stir, stier steer, stear, frontier stor, stoar, stoary, storry store, story stu, stuurd, suwer, sower stew, stewerd, sewer moisstyur, -stiur, moisture, pasture stairofoam, sair, sairan styrofoam, sire, siren dainosaur, sour dinosaur, sour
How many phonemes are there in English speech? [article]
This 6x8 chart lists 48 - 14 pure vowels + 22 unmixed consonants graphic
The obscure vowels schwa and er are the most frequent sounds in English speech but
they are often overlooked or ignored since there is no single letter used to represent them.
| checked
short |
extended
long |
r-comb.
in RP, r=shwa |
voiced
lenis |
unvoiced
fortis |
syllabic | |
| a. [ae]*ax | a: [aa] *alms | ar *are, car | b *boot . but | p *pipe. pyp | l. .l .*li.t.l | |
| e. *elbow e.lbo | e: [ei] *ace eis | er *air, there | j [dzh]*gym, jim | ch [tsh] *church | r. .r *ro.r | |
| i. *itch .i.ch | i: [ee] *eel.il | ir *ear, irate | d *did | t *tip | m. .m *mu'.m | |
| o. *ox, odd | o: [aw] *awe, all | or *order | dh [ð] *the x | th [q] *thin | n. .n *nu'.n | |
| w hook .hwk | u: [oo] iu *zulu | ur iur *tour | v *visa - visa' | f *fife - faif | 3 q [ng] *sing | |
| u. . [L] up vp | a [shwa] a'go | .r *her, *irk | k *kit -cat katt | g *get - gett | h *who hu | |
| o' ['u] *owe | au [.w] *out | aur *our | z *zip - zipp | s *sip - sipp | w & .[hw] | |
| oi *oil | 'y [ai] *'ice | 'iyr *ire | 2 [zh] leisure li2ur | 5 [sh]ip .5ip | y *year .yir | |
| 24 Vowels - 21
essential
12 unmixed "pure" vowels pale yellow cells are pure |
24 Consonants
22 unmixed or non-blends [pale yellow] j=dzh, d2 & ch=tsh, t5 are blends in IPA |
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There is a stressed and unstressed AR indicated as a urr and er above.
urr fits the stressed mid lax pattern buff, butt, buzz,...burr
er is the most common unstressed pattern [conducter]
with or commonly used to refer to people - conductor, operator,
author , .... but not writor
murdar doesn't look as good as murder. ar to er is one concession
to tradition over logic.
The stre
mar = mer, but stressed mer is marrdar.
Some notations will merge
phonemes, Truespel
does not isolate ng or hw as a separate phoneme
and merges up and ago [uggoe].
Graphic
of the Saxon Spanglish othorgraphy
Irregular traditionally spelled words are italicized, eye-ai, out-aut, *vowels when not followedby a vowel - wwln =woolen |
Saxon
Spanglish
MapIPA
Spelling
& Pronunciation Index Page
Culkin on the Alfubet
The long A is not really used in American English - the o takes care
of this sound in short vowels.
ah takes care of it in long vowels. alah.
