Contrasting Monophthongs

Contrasting monophthongs (simple vowels)
Monophthongs
[i:] – ee
[i] - ih
[e] - eh, - ten - any
[æ] - ae – tan - and
[a:] - aa
[o:] – aww
[o] aw
[u:] – oo
[yu:] – ew
[u] - u,
[ər] - errr,
[ə] - uh
bean – bin – Ben – ban – bar – born – bond – boom – beauty – book – burn – bun;
peat – pit – pet – pat – part – port – pot – pool – pew – put – purr – pus;
Contrasting monophthongs in pairs
[i:] – [i]
lead – lid, read – rid, feel – fill, deal – dill, heel – hill, team – Tim, keen – kin, seen – sin, teen – tin,
leave – live;
peak – pick, seek – sick; sheep – ship, heap – hip, leap – lip, beat – bit, feet – fit, seat – sit;
[i:] – [i]: eat fish, be sick, feel ill, see him, meet Bill, deal with, read this, beat it; [i] – [i:]: kiss me, lip
cream, till three;
[i] – [e]
bill – bell, fill – fell, till – tell, him – hem, pin – pen, tin – ten, win – when, bid – bed, did – dead, Liz –
Les, since – sense;
pit – pet, sit – set, Nick – neck, pick – peck, miss – mess, wrist – rest, lift – left;
[i] – [e]: Big Ben, six guests, live well, since ten; [e] – [i]: tell Tim, test him;
[e] – [æ]
bed – bad, said – sad, beg – bag, leg – lag, hell – Hal, hem – ham;
Ben – ban, pen – pan, den – Dan, ten – tan, men – man; bend – band, lend – land, send – sand;
bet – bat, met – mat, pet – pat, set – sat, mess – mass, wreck – rack, peck – pack, letter – latter,
better – batter;
[e] – [æ]: red bag, fell back, met Alice, pen pal; [æ] – [e]: Ann said, bad pen, add ten, marry Mary;
[æ] – [a:]
bad – bard, lad – lard, Pam – palm, cam – calm, carry – car, Barry – bar;
cat – cart, hat – heart, mat – mart, pat – part, cap – carp, back – bark, pack – park,
[æ] – [a:]: Dan's father, last part, fast cars; [a:] – [æ]: smart Alex, hard candy, Karl's cat;
[æ] – [/\]
fan – fun, ran – run, sang – sung, land – lung, Dan – done, man – month, frank – front, Sam – some,
ram – rum, damp – dump, bag – bug, rag – rug;
cat – cut, bat – but, hat – hut, fat – fuss, last – lust, task – tusk, back – buck, lack – luck, tack – tuck,
stack – stuck;
[æ] – [ə]: bad cut, bad blood, bad luck, black gun, last month, Ann's mother; [ə] – [æ]: some tan, one
man, a bag, a hat;
[a:] – [o:]
far – four, car – core, tar – tore, star – store, card – cord, bard – board, barn – born;
park – pork, stark – stork, part – port, cart – court, Marty – Morty,
[a:] – [o:]: carport, Bart bought, hard core; [o:] – [a:]: four cars, ball park, small yard;
[a:] – [ə]
barn – bun, calm – come, drama – drum, march – much, darn – done, far – sofa, father – mother;
bark – buck, dark – duck, lark – luck, tar – tuck, stark – stuck, heart – hut,
[a:] – [ər]
hard – heard, card – curd, far – fur, farm – firm, barn – burn, large – splurge, charge – church;
heart – hurt, cart – Curt, dark – dirt, lark – lurk, park – perk, carton – curtain,
[o:] – [ər]
call – curl, hall – hurl, all – earl, Paul – pearl, saw – sir, lawn – learn;
war – were, ward – word, warm – worm, reward – reword, walk – work, wart – worth;
four – fir, sore – sir, store – stir, core – occur, pour – purr;
born – burn, torn – turn, form – firm, board – bird, cord – curd,
course – curse, caught – curt, short – shirt, talk – Turk;
[o:] – [ər]: warm words, four birds, call Kurt; [ər] – [o:]: first floor, third door, learn all;
[o] – [ə]
bomb – bum, rob – rub, college – color, common – come, comma – company, body – buddy, bother
– brother;
gone – done, nonsense – none, honor – honey, monitor – money, monument – Monday, fond –
front, tongs – tongue, sponsor – sponge;
conference – confess, continent – contain, content (n.) – content (adj.) , contract (n.) – contract (v.),
contrary – control, policy – police;
lock – luck, sock – suck, cop – cup, hot – hut, not – nut, cloth – nothing, bottle – butter, bottom –
button;
[u:] – [yu:]
food – feud, fool – fume, cool – cute, who – hue, ooze – use, moose – muse, boot – beauty;
[u:] – [u]
fool – full, pool – pull, womb – woman, food – foot, Luke – look, tooth – took, shoot – should;
[u] – [o]
cook – cock, look – lock, rook – rock, took – stock, put – pot, good – god;
[u] – [ə]
book – buck, look – luck, took – tuck, put – but, push – hush, full – dull, pull – hull;
The sounds [ə] (but) and [ər] (bird)
[ə] – [ər]
bud – bird, cub – curb, bun – burn, ton – turn, fun – fern, soda – coder;
luck – lurk, shut – shirt, but – Bert, hut – hurt, such – search, bust – burst, sofa – suffer, quota –
quarter;
stressed [ə] – unstressed [ə]
son – lesson, some – awesome, muss – famous, numb – venom, thud – method,
stressed [ər] – unstressed [ər]
fur – offer, refer – suffer, sir – answer, purr – helper, burn – stubborn, turn – lantern;

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stressed [ər] – unstressed [ər]

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