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102 - Task 3 - Vowel Sounds - Mayra Angelica Correa Ordoñez

This document contains a phonetic transcription exercise completed by a student for their English Phonetics class. It includes 5 tasks where the student was asked to: 1) Identify tongue positions of vowels, 2) Write vowel symbols in words, 3) Transcribe text from IPA to English letters, 4) Transcribe text from English letters to IPA, and 5) Provide words containing different diphthongs. The student provided their answers to each task and included references at the end.

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102 - Task 3 - Vowel Sounds - Mayra Angelica Correa Ordoñez

This document contains a phonetic transcription exercise completed by a student for their English Phonetics class. It includes 5 tasks where the student was asked to: 1) Identify tongue positions of vowels, 2) Write vowel symbols in words, 3) Transcribe text from IPA to English letters, 4) Transcribe text from English letters to IPA, and 5) Provide words containing different diphthongs. The student provided their answers to each task and included references at the end.

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Task 3 – Vowel Sounds

Student

Mayra Angelica Correa Ordoñez

Group: 518014 _102

Tutor

Yohom Fredy Sánchez

Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD)

Licenciatura en Lenguas Extranjeras con Énfasis en Inglés

English Phonetics

Cead-Florencia

April 11,2021
Link of the video: https://youtu.be/MjHi85lU3a8
Task 3_Transcription Exercises
Vowel sounds

1. Name the tongue position for each vowel. The first one is
done for you:
a) /ʌ/ Mid and back
b) /ʊ/ Near - back vowel
c) /ɪ/ Near close
d) /ɔ:/ Open mind back round Vowel
e) /æ/ Near open

2. Write only the symbols of the vowel sounds contained in the


following words, remember to write each symbol in slashes
(//).
 The first one is done for you.
Word Symbols of the vowel sounds
snub /ʌ/
bull /ʊ/

letter /ə/ /e/

keep /i/

Gear /i/ /ə/

3. As you already know consonant and vowel symbols,


transcribe from IPA alphabet to regular English letters the
following text:

/westən jʊərəp həd biːn dɪˈskʌsɪŋ kɒnsəpts sʌʧ əz səˈsteɪnəbl ̩


dɪˈveləpmənt off nɪərlɪ twentɪ jɪərz ət ðæt pɔɪnt/
Transcription:
Western Europe… had been discussing concepts staff is
sustainable development for nearly twenty years at that point.

4. Transcribe from regular English letter (graphemes) to IPA


symbols (phonemes) the following text.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It


was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly
worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the
miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic
childhood. (from Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt)

Transcription:
wɛn aɪ lʊk bæk ɒn maɪ tʃɑɪdhʊd aɪ wʌndər haʊ aɪ sər/vaiv ət ɔ: l. it wəz,
əv kɔːrs, əɪ mizrəbl tʃɑɪdhʊd: ðə hæpi tʃɑɪdhʊd ɪz haːdli wɜːrθ jʊr waɪl
wɜːrs ðən ðə ɔːrdneri mizrəbl tʃɑɪdhʊd iz ðə mizrəbl aɪrɪʃ tʃɑɪdhʊd, ənd
wɜːrs jet iz ðə mizrəbl aɪrɪʃ kæθlɪk tʃɑɪdhʊd.frəm Emdʒls æjs bɑɪ fræŋk
Mk kɔːrt

5. Write a word that includes each diphthong.


 The first one is done for you.

Symbol Word
a) / aɪ/ Cry
b) /eɪ/ Space
c) /əʊ/ Alone
d) /aʊ/ Mouth
e) / ɪə/ Ear
Diagram:

Diphthong 1: /eɪ/
Each, free.
Diphthong 2: /eʊ/
Snow, tow.
Diphthong 3: /ɔ:ɪ/
Boy, choice.
Diphthong 4: /əʊ/
Don`t go.
REFERENCES

Daniel, I. O. (2011). Chapter Three: Articulation of English Sounds.

In Introductory Phonetics and Phonology of English. (pp. 15-20).

Cambridge Scholars

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