Tuesday, 9 July 2013

T 5 (5-8)/ æ α : ɒ ʌ /



5.  / æ   /  ---      low-front, lax, unround
It has the same speech sound as the letter ‘a’ in the word ‘at’.  It  is pronounced with the tongue placed low-front (right behind the front incisor teeth of the lower jaw).
       
a  ---  bad, back, black, bag, clad, flag, glad, had, lack, lad, mad,
         pad, sad, tack, tad, wad, 

        an ---  an, and, band, can, clan, clank, fan, gland, grand, hand, land,
                  man, pan, ran, sand, sank, stand, tank, van, yank

        ap --- apple, cap, clap, flap, gap, hap, tap, map, nap, sap, tap
        at  --- at, bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat, sat,                         (14) 

6.  /   a:   /  -----  low-back, lax, half-round (unround to half-round)
It has the same speech sound as the letter ‘R’.

        a  --- bask, basket, bath, brass, cast, father, glass, grass, half, mask, 
                masque, mast, master, pass, past, task, alms, almond, balm,
                calm, palm
               
ar --- are, bar, bargain, barge, barn, car, char, charm, dark, far,
        garden, guard, hard, harsh, jar, lark, march, mark, market,  
        nark, park, sardine, tar, tart,


7.  /  ɒ  /  -----  low-back, lax, slightly rounded
It has the shorter speech sound than /  a:  /.
       
o ---  bog, cot, clog, chop, cock, sock, clock, cockle, cop, cost, dog,
                donkey, dot, fog, fond, fossil, got, hog, hot, hop, hockey,
                horrible, jog, jot, jog, knock, knot, lob, lobby, lock, lodge, loft, 
                log, logic, long, lost, lot, moth, modern, mop, nod, nonsense, 
                pot, rot, shop, shot,

8. /  ʌ   /  -----  low, central, lax, unround
It has the same speech sound as the letter ‘u’ in the word ‘up’.
               
u  --- but, cut, cup, duck, dull, dust, dung, dug, fun, fund, gun, husk,   
                 hut, hunt, hurry, jut, luck, much, must, nut, puppy, rub, rut,   
                 rust, sum, suck, such, tub,
                               
o  ---  come, some, dove, love, glove, Monday, money, monkey,
         worry
               
ou --- country, courage, double, enough, rough, slough, tough

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