Diphthongs

Exercises

1. Transcribe these words. Read them. Use them to illustrate the, distributional characteristics of the /eı/ phoneme. State how /eı/ іs influenced by the consonants which (a) precede and (b) follow it.

(a) way, my, veil, they, lay, nay, rate, jail, Yale, gay, hate

(b) babe, shave, bathe, pace, maze, pain, age, plague

2. Transcribe these words. Read them. Use them to illustrate the distributional characteristics of the /aı/ phoneme. Define the consonants which (a) precede and (b) follow it.

(a) why, my, vile, thy, lie, night, ride, jibe, kind, high

(b) imbibe, time, five, lithe, mice, rise, nine, oblige, Mike

3. Transcribe these words. Read them. Use them to illustrate the distributional characteristics of the /au/ phoneme, Define the consonants which (a) precede and (b) follow it.

(a) wow, mouse, vow, thou, loud, now, gown, round

(b) mouth (v), crowd, mouse, down, owl

4. Transcribe these words. Read them. Use them to illustrate the distributional characteristics of the / ɔı/ phoneme. Define the consonants which (a) precede and (b) follow it.

(a) moist, voyage, soil, loiter, roister, joy, yoick, goitre, hoist

(b) coif, choice, oil, join, voyage, hoik

5. Transcribe these words. Read them. Use them to illustrate the distributional characteristics of the /əu/ phoneme, define the consonants which (a) precede and (b) follow it.

(a) woe, mow, vote, though, so, zone, low, no, rope, joke, yolk, go, hoe, known

(b) home, rove, .loathe, rode, close, pole, own, doge, rogue.

6. Transcribe these words. Read them. Use them to illustrate the distributional characteristics of the /ıə/ phoneme. Define the consonants which (a) precede and (b) follow it.

(a) weir, mere, veer, theatre, gear, zero, lear, rear, cheer, jeer, year, gear, hear

(b) licentiate, beard, fierce, hear, ideals, antipodean.

7. Transcribe these words. Head them. Use them to illustrate the distributional characteristics of the /eə/ phoneme. Define the consonants which (a) precede and (b) follow it.

(a) ware, mare, variance, there, Zars, lair, Nares, rare, chair, Yare, garish, hare (b) Shairp, theirs, Pitcairn

8. Transcribe these, words. Read them. Use them to illustrate the distributional characteristics of the /uə/ phoneme. Define the consonants which (a) precede and (b) follow it.

(a) wooer, moot, zoological, lure, rural, chewer, jurist, your, gourd

(b) arduous, Boers, annual, bourn

9. Sort out three words according to the distributional characteristics of the phonemes /eı, əu, aı, au, ɔı, ıə, εə, uə/ in relation to the (a) preceding or (b) following consonant. Follow the order of consonant classification: (1) Labial a) bilabial, b) labio-dental. (2) Lingual, forelingual (a) epical, (inter)dental, b) epical alveolar, c) apical palate-alveolar d) cacuminal post-alveolar. (3) Lingual medic-lingual. (4) Lingual backlingual, (5) Pharyngal (glottal).

/eı/

stay, pay, game, again, make, lake, lay, pain, case, day, weigh, rain, famous, ray, able, way, ache, late, lain, David, age, waste, pale, same, taken, Wales, shape, face, gave, paint

/əu/

go, over, hope, boating, hotel, show, hold, only, follow, road, shoulder, poker, foe, gold, don't, old, cold, both, motor, total, bureau, social, though, low, poet, yolk, motive, so, nose, cosy, jokes, noticed

/aı/

why, high, kind, wife, wild, mild, lie, die, nine, while, silence profile, right, eye, side, like, kindly, isles, eyes, idea, rise, climb, quite, ray, bright, Michael, kite

/au/

how, thousand, south, new, down, round, pound, mouth, drown, out, couch, found

/ ɔı/

join, enjoy, boy, point, coin, destroy, soil, employ, noise, joint

/ıə/

dear, near, year, idea, Crimea, here, severe, museum, accordeon, fear; clear, ears, cheer, theatre, real, realize, appear, period, tear, weary

/eə/

there, parents, anywhere, care, stare, bare, area, various, despair square, stairs, carefully, pair, Mary, dare, farewell

/uə/

sure, poor, tour, during, usual, moor, Europe.

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