The document contains an activity on phonetics from an Introduction to Linguistics course. It provides examples of words that demonstrate different vowel and consonant sounds in English, organized into sections that compare similar sounds. Each section lists 5 pairs of words containing the sounds being demonstrated. The purpose is to help students distinguish between sounds that can be difficult to differentiate, like /i/ and /I/ or /æ/ and /ɑ/.
The document contains an activity on phonetics from an Introduction to Linguistics course. It provides examples of words that demonstrate different vowel and consonant sounds in English, organized into sections that compare similar sounds. Each section lists 5 pairs of words containing the sounds being demonstrated. The purpose is to help students distinguish between sounds that can be difficult to differentiate, like /i/ and /I/ or /æ/ and /ɑ/.
The document contains an activity on phonetics from an Introduction to Linguistics course. It provides examples of words that demonstrate different vowel and consonant sounds in English, organized into sections that compare similar sounds. Each section lists 5 pairs of words containing the sounds being demonstrated. The purpose is to help students distinguish between sounds that can be difficult to differentiate, like /i/ and /I/ or /æ/ and /ɑ/.
The document contains an activity on phonetics from an Introduction to Linguistics course. It provides examples of words that demonstrate different vowel and consonant sounds in English, organized into sections that compare similar sounds. Each section lists 5 pairs of words containing the sounds being demonstrated. The purpose is to help students distinguish between sounds that can be difficult to differentiate, like /i/ and /I/ or /æ/ and /ɑ/.
1. neat and knit 2. bean and bin 3. keen and kin 4. leap and lip 5. heed and hid
/eɪ/ (late) and /ɛ/ (let)
1. mate and met 2. gate and get 3. bait and bet 4. pain and pen 5. taint and tent
/ɛ/ (bed) and /æ/ (bad)
1. rent and rant 2. led and lad 3. pen and pan 4. set and sat 5. fret and frat
/æ/ (hat) and /ɑ/ (hot)
1. cat and cot 2. bad and bod 3. add and odd 4. bat and bot 5. gad and god
/ɑ/ (calm) and /ɘ/ (come)
1. psalm and some 2. don and done 3. mod and mud 4. not and nut 5. mot and mutt /æ/ (bat) and /ɘ (but) 1. hat and hut 2. pan and pun 3. ban and bun 4. ran and run 5. sam and sum
/ɔ/ (want) and /oʊ/ (won’t)
1. ball and bowl 2. bald and bold 3. bought and boat 4. call and coal 5. chalk and choke
/ʊ/ (full) and /u/ (fool)
1. pull and pool 2. look and luke 3. should and shooed 4. stood and stewed 5. would and wooed
1. yearn and yarn 2. pert and part 3. tern and tarn 4. perk and park 5. fur and far
/ɘr/ (work) and /ɔ/ (walk)
1. perk and pork 2. kern and corn 3. hern and horn 4. tern and torn 5. burn and born /aɪ/ (time, nine, dry, etc.) 1. fry 2. pile 3. might 4. fright 5. height