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1
Q

[___]

A

Some particular phone or set/series of phones.

A phone is an individual and particular sound

2
Q

[a]

A

Sounds like but, nut, cut, bitter

Front-central
Open
Un-rounded vowel

3
Q

[e]

A

Sounds like bet, wet, cigarette, lead (metal), read (past tense), red

Front
Close-mid
Un-rounded vowel

4
Q

[b]

A

Sounds like bat, bike, nebula

Voiced
Bilabial
Plosive

5
Q

[p]

A

Sounds like pale, pin, pit

Voiceless
Bilabial
Plosive (stop)

6
Q

[s]

A

Sounds like snake, cast, clasp, kiss (not cars or please)

Voiceless
Alveolar
Fricative

7
Q

[w]

A

Win, will, beware

Voiced
Labial-velar ?
Approximant

8
Q

[j]

A

Yell, yes

Voiced
Palatal
Approximant

9
Q

/_/

A

This is a phoneme, the general category of similar individual sounds or phones.
Eg /b/ might contain the phones [b], [B], and [p].

Languages usually don’t distinguish between phones belonging to the same phoneme
(There are tests to determine if a phone is part of one set but that’s in another deck)

Phonemes are the conventional labels for a particular group of phones (grouping varies between languages and dialects)

10
Q

[t]

A

Tattoo, tap, pat

Voiceless
Alveolar
Plosive

11
Q

[d]

A

Dad, paddle

Voiced
Alveolar
Plosive

12
Q

[k]

A

Cat, pack, kitchen

Voiceless
Velar
Plosive

13
Q

[g]

A

Get, giddy, pig (not gin)

Voiced
Velar
Plosive

14
Q

[m]

A

Mad, mum, bemused

Voiced
Bilabial
Nasal

15
Q

[n]

A

Nasal, mean, mooned, meaning

Voiced
Alveolar
Nasal

16
Q

[n,]♑️

A

Sing, bang, bank, tranquil

Voiced
Velar
Nasal

17
Q

[f]

A

Fun, photo, cough, graph

Voiceless
Labiodental
Fricative

18
Q

[v]

A

Very, veneer, believe

Voiced
Labiodental
Fricative

19
Q

[⛔️]

A

Thistle, pith, path

Voiceless
Dental
Fricative

20
Q

[➰]

A

That, this, bath, bathe, the

Voiced
Dental
Fricative

21
Q

[z]

A

Cars, please, bees

Voiced
Alveolar
Fricative

22
Q

[r]

Rotated 180

A

Carry, run, rest (not par, cur)

Voiced
Alveolar
Approximant

23
Q

[,|’]

A

Shin, pash, passion, cosh

Voiceless
Post alveolar
Fricative

24
Q

[3]

A

Jus, fusion

Voiced
Post alveolar
Fricative

25
Q

[h]

A

Hat, hurry, perhaps

Voiceless
Glottal
Fricative

26
Q

[l]

Lion

A

Large, pull, pillow

Voiced
Alveolar
Approximant

27
Q

[I]

Imogen

A

Hit, bib, crib

Front
Close
Un-rounded vowel

28
Q

[i:]🔻🔺

A

Bee, see, eat, Eden, eve

Front
Close
Un-rounded vowel

29
Q

[e]🔄

A

Central
Mid ?
Unrounded vowel

30
Q

[c]🔄

A

Back
Open-mid
Rounded vowel

31
Q

[ae]

A

Pat, back, apple

Front ?
Open ?
Un-rounded vowel

32
Q

[a]🔄

A

Central
Open ?
Un-rounded vowel

33
Q

[o:]🔻🔺

A

Back
Close-mid
Rounded vowel

34
Q

[E] £

A

Pert, hurt, lurch, search? Curt

Central
Open-mid
Un-rounded vowel

35
Q

[⛎]🔻🔺

A

Boot, hoot, lute

Central
Close
Rounded vowel

36
Q

[♈️]

A

Put?

Back
Close
Un-rounded vowel

37
Q

[d3] £

A

Jab, judge, grudge, djinn, gin

38
Q

[t,|’]

A

Chin, chat, church

Voiceless

39
Q

[e:] 🔻🔺

A

Air, care, pear, lair, Sarah

40
Q

[aeI]

A

Bay, tray, ale,

Diphthongs

41
Q

[Ie] 🔄

A

Here, clear, tear, peer (weary?)

Diphthong

42
Q

[o,e]

o = a

A

Buy, sky, rye, kite

Diphthong

43
Q

[oI]

A

Boy, toy, soy, cloying, hoist, moisture

Diphthong

44
Q

[aec] 🔄

A

How, brown, sour, cloud, found

Diphthong

45
Q

[e⛎] 🔄

A

Go, low, sew, roan, tone, loan

Diphthong