These sounds can be found in such words as dig, twig, bed, and bird.
Modern linguists believe that vowel nasalization is peculiar for American English while in British English this phenomenon is rare (Carr, 2012). Nasal vowels are an ambiguous phenomenon in English. The examples of words with these sounds are cup, nut, lot, and map. Lax vowels are always short and they are mostly unstressed (Carr, 2012). The list of lax vowels in English includes the sounds /ǽ/, /Λ /, /σ/, / υ/, /i/, /e/, and /ә/. Lax vowels are also called short vowels because of the nature of their pronunciation. The examples of words with these sounds are pen, red, and pot.
Mid vowels are the vowels produced as a result of using the mid height tongue position. These vowels appear in such words as cat, dog, cup, net, and thus, they are traditional proto-English sounds. English vowels classification Basic vowelsīasic English vowels include /ǽ/, /έ/, /a/, /e/, /ά/, /i/, /I/, /ε/, /o/, /u/, /υ/, /כ/, and /ә/ as shown in Fig 2. As to the lip rounding, vowels are rounded and unrounded (Sloat, Henderson & Hoard, 1978). Based on the tongue position, the vowels are divided into high, mid, and low depending on tongue height in the oral cavity and front, central, and back depending on tongue advancement (Odden, 2005).
1, English vowels are classified according to the tongue position and lip rounding (Odden, 2005). Learn more Description of English Vowels and Consonants English VowelsĪs demonstrated in Fig.
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