1. Assignment 1 - discrimination of vowels
语音练习
Assignment 1 Discrimination of vowel sounds
1. Comparison between monophthongs
/i / — / /
leave — live
heel — hill
feel — fill peach — pitch /e/ — /æ/
men — man met — mat
bed — bad send — sand
/ :/ — / /
chalk — chock caught — cot forks — fox naught — not /ɑ:/ — / / march — much heart — hut /u:/ — / /
cool — could food — foot harm — hum dark — duck lend — land beg — bag read — rid deed — did
sport — spot
cork — cock
calm — come barn — bun
fool — full pool — pull shoed — should wooed — would
2. Comparison between diphthongs
/a / — / /
now — no blouse — blows
out — oat couch — coach / /— /e /
hear — hair cheer — chair
fear — fair dear — dare
crowd — crowed bow (v.) — bow (n.)
beer — bear really — rarely
3. Comparison between monophthongs & diphthongs
/i:/ — /e /
me — may see — say meet — mate
bee — bay heat — hate lead — laid
eat — eight feet — fate read — raid
