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Sound Features For English PDF

This document provides a phonetic transcription of consonant and vowel sounds in Standard Australian English. It categorizes consonants as stops, fricatives, affricates, nasals, liquids, and glides. Vowels are categorized by place and manner of articulation, including tense/lax distinctions.

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Sound Features For English PDF

This document provides a phonetic transcription of consonant and vowel sounds in Standard Australian English. It categorizes consonants as stops, fricatives, affricates, nasals, liquids, and glides. Vowels are categorized by place and manner of articulation, including tense/lax distinctions.

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Consonant and Vowel Features (for Broad SAE)

Ling201,Jan.25

Consonants
[ p ] : voiceless bilabial stop
[ b ] : voiced bilabial stop
[ t ] : voiceless alveolar stop
[ d ] : voiced alveolar stop

Stops

[ k ] : voiceless velar stop


[ ] : voiced velar stop
[ f ] : voiceless labiodental fricative
[ v ] : voiced labiodental fricative
[ ] : voiceless dental fricative
[ ] : voiced dental fricative

Obstruents

[ s ] : voiceless alveolar fricative


[ z ] : voiced alveolar fricative

Fricatives

[ ] : voiceless palato-alveolar fricative


[ ] : voiced palato-alveolar fricative
[ h ] : voiceless glottal fricative
[ t ] : voiceless palato-alveolar affricate
[ d ] : voiced palato-alveolar affricate

Affricates

[ m ] : (voiced) bilabial nasal


[ n ] : (voiced) alveolar nasal
[ ] : (voiced) velar nasal

Nasals

[ ] : (voiced) alveolar approximant


[ l ] : (voiced) alveolar lateral approximant

Liquids

[ j ] : (voiced) palatal approximant


[ w ] : (voiced) labialized velar approximant

Glides

Sonorants
Approximants

Vowels
[ i ] : high front unrounded tense
[ ] : high front unrounded lax
[ e ] : mid front unrounded tense
[ ] : mid front unrounded lax
[ a ] : low front unrounded tense
[ ] : low front unrounded lax

[ u ] : high back rounded tense


[ ] : high back rounded lax
[ ] : mid central unrounded lax
[ ] : mid central unrounded lax

[ o ] : mid back rounded tense


[ ] : mid back rounded lax

[ ] : low back unrounded tense

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