Producing vowels

PRODUCING VOWELSPLACE OF ARTICULATION

created by:

Lailia Suci Ramadania & Nur Ratnasari

WHAT IS VOWELS?

Vowels are produced by a continuous

airstream and all are voiced. They are

classified according to height of the

tongue, part of the tongue involved and

position of the lips.

THE PART OF TONGUE

The tongue can be high, mid or law;

and the part of the tongue used can be

front, central or back.

THE VOWELS QUADRILATERAL

• Tongue Height is a significant factor in the character of vowel sounds.

• Tongue Fronting is the second significant factor in the production of vowels.

TONGUE HEIGHT/ VOWELS HEIGHT• High vowels: tongue body is raised [i] [I] [u] [U]

‘beat’ ‘bit’ ‘boot’ ‘put’

• Mid vowels: tongue body is intermediate[eI] [E] [oU] [U ]‘bait’ ‘bet’ ‘boat’ ‘butt’ [e] [o]

• Low vowels: tongue body is lowered[ ᴂ] [a]‘bat’ ‘bomb’

TONGUE FRONTING/ VOWELS FRONTING

• Front vowels: tongue body is pushed forward [i] [I] [e] [ ] ᴈ Beet Bit Chaotic Bet

• Back vowels: tongue body is pulled back [u] [U] [o] [ᴐ] Pull Book Not Four • Central vowels: tongue body is neutral [ᴐ] [ ᴧ] Four Up

The four corners of the vowelquadrilateral represent extreme

tongue positions:• upper left is the farthest

forward, highest vowel possible

• upper right is the farthest back, highest vowel possible

• lower left is the farthest forward, lowest vowel possible

• lower right is farthest back, lowest vowel possible

SCHWASchwa is the only

unstressed vowel in the central zone, it is rather more free to

move than other vowels.

The sounds are very like schwa:

[ʌ], [3] and [ə]

DIPHTHONGSDiphthong is a vowel sound in which the tongue starts in

one place in the mouth and moves to another.

Example of diphthongs:/aʊ/ as in bout and /ɪə/ as in beer

TRIPHTHONGSOther vowels on the list of phonemes that

ought to be describe as triphthong.

Example for triphthong:/aɪə/ as in tire and /aʊə/ as in tower

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