vowels, part 3 november 9, 2015 just so you know acoustics homework is due! today: vowels around the...
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Vowels, part 3
November 9, 2015
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Just So You Know• Acoustics Homework is due!
• Today: Vowels around the world!
• For next Wednesday: vowel transcription!
• Turkish and British English
• For next Friday:
• Production Exercise #3 (on Vowels, natch)
• Formant Measuring Exercise
• Both of these exercises have been posted to the course website.
• Let’s do a quick review of the vowel matching exercise…
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the rest of the IPA vowels
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Front, Rounded Vowels
• [y] high, front, tense
• high, front, lax
• [ø] high-mid, front
• [œ] low-mid, front
• [ ] low, front
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French Front Rounded Vowels
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Dutchfront
rounded vowels
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Unrounded vs. Rounded
[li] [ly]
These are both high, front vowels
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Front vs. Back
[ly] [lu]
These are both high, rounded vowels
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Unrounded vs. Rounded
[le] [lø]
These are both mid-high, front vowels
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Front vs. Back
[lø] [lo]
These are both mid-high, rounded vowels
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German: tense vs. lax
high, front, unrounded
high, front, rounded
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German: tense vs. lax
high, front, rounded
high, back, rounded
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Back, unrounded vowels• high, back, unrounded
• mid-high, back, unrounded
Compare with an old friend:
• low, back, rounded
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Vietnamese
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Front vs. Back
[ti]
These are both high, unrounded vowels
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Unrounded vs. Rounded
These are both high, back vowels
[tu]
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Front vs. Back
These are both mid-high, unrounded vowels
[te]
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Unrounded vs. Rounded
[tou]
These are both mid-high, back vowels
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Turkish
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Low, Back Vowels• British English (RP) has a three-way distinction between
~ ~
• “bard”
“bod”
“bawd”
• “hard”
“hod”
“hawed”
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Unrounded vs. Rounded
These are both low, back vowels
“hard” “hod”
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Low vs. Mid-Low
These are both back, round vowels
“hod” “hawed”
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Central Vowels
• high, unrounded
• high, rounded
• mid-low, unrounded
• mid-high, rounded
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Barred-i in Russian
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Front vs. Central
These vowels are both high and unrounded.
[bjil]
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Barred-u in Norwegian
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Front vs. Central
These vowels are both high and rounded
[by:]
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Central vs. Back
These vowels are both high and rounded
[bu:]
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Reversed Epsilon• British English (RP) distinguishes between central and back unrounded vowels in the mid-low region
“bud” “bird”
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RP Diphthongs• Just so you know:
1. RP = “Received Pronunciation”
2. The /o/ phoneme is realized as a diphthong.
• Peter: “bode”
• Bruce: “bode”
3. RP is non-rhotic
Lots of extra diphthongs with a offglide.
4. [ju] can appear after alveolars in RP.
“news” = [nju:z] “suit” = [sjut]
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Swedish
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The Great Lakes Shift• One chain shift is currently taking place in the northern United States.
• Prevalent in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and many places in between
• (but not in Toronto)
• (but maybe in Windsor!)
General Great Lakes
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fronting
Hod
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100012001400160018002000
F2
F1
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[æ] raising
Had
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10001500200025003000
F2
F1
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backing
“ahead”
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Hod
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7009001100130015001700
F2
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Female Talkers
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Who'ed
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8001100140017002000
F2
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Female Talkers
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New Zealand Vowel Shift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5AQIlmM0I
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A Word of Caution• The vowel system of English can vary greatly from one dialect to another.
• Ex: the vowels of Canadian English have shifted away from their American counterparts…
• (for some, but not all, speakers)
• Shift #1:
• Shift #2:
Unshifted:
Unshifted:
• There are also new shifts underway!
• Shift #3: “head”
• Shift #4: “hid”
• Shift #5: “hood”