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UNIT II : MONOPHTONGS AND DIPHTONGS

Activity 1: Describe Monophthongs vs. diphthongs

There are a few different kinds of vowels. Simple vowels are called monophthongs,

since you only need to place your tongue and mouth in one place. The words in the

parentheses are the IPA symbols for each vowel sound.

Activity 2: Identify Monophthongs vs. diphthongs

Common monophthongs in English (these are for General American English) include:

▪ /i/ as in police, here, feet, eat, and silly

▪ /ɪ/ as in it, sit, kick, and bitter

▪ /ɛ/ as in end, bet, less, and letter
▪ /æ/ as in at, apple, fat, and matter

▪ /u/ cool, tune, soup, and kung fu

▪ /ʊ/ cook, should, pudding, and foot

▪ /ʌ/ as in bus, blood, come, and up
▪ /ə/ as in kingdom, photography, philosophy, ketchup, and hundred

▪ /ɚ/ as in butter, collar, flavor, firm, and burst

▪ /ɔ/ as in all, fought, hot, and bot
▪ /ɑ/ as in father, walk, arm, heart, wasp, lager, envelope and aardvark

More complicated vowels include diphthongs, complex vowels in which your mouth

and/or tongue move as you say them.

Common diphthongs in English include:

▪ /eɪ/ as in ate, reign, vain, flavor, slay, and convey

▪ /oʊ/ as in toe, row, go, boat, mode, and chateau

▪ /aɪ/ as in eye, I, pie, cry, cypher, climb, lime, light, kayak, Thai, and height
▪ /aʊ/ as in loud, house, cow, Daoism, Macau, and Claybaugh

▪ /oɪ/ as in boy, moist, and Freud

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