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The full IPA chart doesn’t typically list diphthongs because you can make them out of any two vowels. Other common diphthongs in English include [aɪ] and [aʊ].
The vowels of the IPA aren't just a collection of symbols—they're also arranged into a chart where the position of the symbol roughly corresponds to the position of the tongue in the mouth when ...
This is a really cool chart because it actually tells you how vowels are made. Over on the bottom left, like, ah, you make that sound with your mouth open. And you can feel your tongue is sort of ...
In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word garage.I didn’t explain much ...
The vowels in Fig. 3c were placed on the IPA chart according to the locations previously calculated for American speakers (ref. 1, page 42), and the overlaid connections (blue lines) were inferred ...
How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect ...