2011 phonetics / Web / Hand out 1 / Sounds and spelling
.docSounds and Spelling – Vowels
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usual spelling |
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[I] fish |
i dish bill pitch fit ticket since |
pretty women busy decided village physics |
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[e] egg |
e menu lend text spend plenty cent |
friendly already said many |
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[J] tree |
ee speed sweet ea peach team e medium |
people niece magazine key receipt |
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[x] cat |
a fan tram crash tax carry land |
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[A] up |
u public duck subject cup hurry ugly |
money one some tough worried |
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[eI] train |
a save gate ai railway plain ay may say |
break steak great weight they grey |
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[R] car |
ar garden start a path glass |
aunt laugh heart |
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[qV] phone |
o broke stone mobile oa roast coach |
owe slow although shoulders |
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[P] clock |
o lorry cost plot off on |
because want watch sausage |
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[aI] bike |
i fine resign y shy cycle igh flight |
buy eyes height |
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[L] horse |
or score floor al bald wall aw prawn draw |
warm course thought caught audience board |
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[aV] owl |
ou hour lounge proud ground ow town brown |
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[V] bull |
u full butcher oo cook book look good |
could should would woman |
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[OI] boy |
oi boil noisy spoilt coin oy enjoy |
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[H] boot |
oo pool moody u true student ew few view |
suitcase juice shoe move through queue |
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[Iq] ear |
eer beer ere here we’re ear beard appearance |
really idea serious |
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[E:] bird |
er term prefer ir dirty third ur curly turn |
learn work world worse journey |
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[Fq] chair |
air airport fair upstairs hair are rare careful |
their there wear pear area |
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[q] other |
Many different spellings, always unstressed. nervous about director complain information |
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[Vq] tourist |
euro furious sure plural |
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Phonetics (from the Greek: phōnē, "sound, voice") is a science that studies sounds of human speech. There are 44 sounds in English: 20 vowels and 24 consonants.
Phonetic transcription is a universal system for transcribing sounds of spoken language. Marks of transcription:
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We write transcription in brackets: [ ].
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We put stress mark (') before the stressed syllable: ['TIqtq].
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We show a long vowel with the help of colon (:): leave [lJv] and live [lIv].
Sounds and Spelling – Consonants
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sound |
usual spelling |
!!! but also |
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sound |
usual spelling |
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[p] parrot |
p plate pupil transport trip pp shopping |
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[T] thumb |
th thin thriller healthy path maths both |
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[b] bag |
b beans bill probably job bb rabbit |
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[D] mother |
th that with further the whether |
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[k] keys |
c court script k kind basket ck track lucky |
chemist mechanic queue |
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[C] chess |
ch change tch match t(+ure) future |
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[g] girl |
g golf forget gg aggressive luggage |
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[G] jazz |
j jealous g generous dge fridge |
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[f] flower |
f food roof ff traffic ph photo |
enough laugh |
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[l] leg |
l lettuce reliable ll sell trolley |
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[v] vase |
v van vegetable travel invest private |
of |
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[r] right |
r result referee primary fry rr borrow |
written wrong |
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[t] tie |
t try tidy stupid strict tt attractive |
worked passed |
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[w] witch |
w wear waste western wh white which |
one once |
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[d] dog |
d director comedy afford dd address |
failed bored |
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[j] yacht |
y yet year yoghurt before u argue |
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[s] snake |
s steps likes ss boss assist ce/ci twice city |
science scene |
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[m] monkey |
m mean slim charming mm summer |
lamb |
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[z] zebra |
z lazy freezing s lose cosy loves trousers |
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[n] nose |
n napkin none honest spoon nn tennis |
knife knew |
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[S] shower |
sh short cash ti station ci special |
sugar sure chef moustache |
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[N] singer |
ng cooking going spring bring |
think bank |
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[Z] televisi on |
revision confusion usually decision garage |
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[h] house |
h handsome inherit hard perhaps |
who whose whole |
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