English Phonemic Phonetic Chart.pdf

DIPHTHONGS

MONOPHTHONGS

iː E, see, these

VOWELS

evil, seat, meat, meet, treat, believe, thief, e-mail, e-bay, BBC

ɪ

ʊ

ɪə

in, if, big, good, wood, do, you, blue, ear, here, hear with, this, six could, should two, shoe clear, beer difficult, would,woman food, Jude, Jew fear, near, Ian knew, crew children book, crook, stear flew, shoot Philip, look, shook happier through, threw Liverpool, full, put moody, Susan

e

ə

ɜː

ɔː

ʊə

egg, bed, red, head said, dead emperor

away, ago over, mother banana dictator London Edinburgh

her, first word, third heard, earth worst, learn herbal, birthday

call, door, talk

pure, cure tour curious, jury manure insecure endure

ʌ

aː

æ

cat, ham, map up, but, under car, far, start happy, lab love, mother hard, father actually brother, luck heart, calm fracture butter, London aunt, aren’t enough, rough can’t, shan’t none, nun half, banana

p

b

sure,shore,more pour, poor, walk

awesome daughter thought, bought

f

v

θ

if, fish, off Philip fife, wife Philosophy

very, live, love voice, over, wives vegetable

think three theory, birthday Thursday thousand

m

n

ŋ

me, lemon, no, none, sing, ring, home, camera notorious long, song, manipulate bone, Norway wrong, doing, living

eɪ Phonemic

A, day, May play, say eight, late alien, make break, hate, bake, take Amy

ɔɪ

Chart

Southern British English (RP)

voiced

unvoiced

Note: All vowels are voiced

əʊ

boy, toy, joy O, go, no, oil, royal, soil know, road boil old, rope, boat spoilt brat show, throw, oh! over, note know, robot

ɒ

eə

aɪ

aʊ

dog, on, off got, want what, hot yacht oxymoron

air, care stair, chair bear, wear where, there

I, my, eye bite, bike high, light, sight Skype, child irate, kind

now, cow ow! house, mouse south, spout tower, flower trousers

d

t∫

dʒ

k

g

did, didn’t, dive, road middle

chess, watch child, stretch beach, teach literature

jam, gym, bridge, edge legend, George vegetable

back, cook crack, capitulate

go, gift, great giggle glimmer

ð

s

z

t

pet, pop, lip, baby, bin, Bob tea, tap, happy, people bonanza tree, trap peculiar, brick, liberty telemetry hippopotamus Barbados Tom, Thomas

CONSONANTS

uː

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∫

the, this, that sun, kiss zoo, zebra she, shoot these sucker, missed please, easy fish, ship, shy mother kicks, stops noses, zombie fresh, sheep cheese, sneeze splash, wash themselves cuts, costs runs, plays Mississippi ash, bishop

ʒ pleasure television massage usually leisure, Asia

h

l

r

w

j

hello, happy him, her hectic ha ha!

leg, ill, live alive, slow lugubrious

red, real, road, write, really already arrange

we, when, what sweltering

yes, yellow, yesterday, younger, music,

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helˈəʊ / həlˈəʊ gʊd ˈmɔːnɪŋ haɪ ˈθæŋks jɔː ˈwelkəm ˈmjuːzɪk ðə ˈkwɪk ˈbraʊn ˈfɒks ˈʤʌmps ˈəʊvə ðə ˈleɪzɪ ˈdɒg ˈrəʊbɒts ɑːrˈɔːsəm* ˈgʌvnmənt / ˈgʌvmənt ˈlɪtərɪʧə ˈveʤtəbl *note the extra /r/ linking the words are[ɑː] and awesome[ˈɔːsəm].

Based on the layout of Adrian Underhill’s phonemic chart

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