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A sound sample spoken by a native speaker consisting of a shorter text with a complete IPA-transcription, preferably one broad (phonemic) and one narrow. Make sure to note the age, sex and the dialect of the speaker. A recommended text to read is a translation of the fable "The North Wind and the Sun", traditionally used by the IPA.
The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association.
In other words, all vowels but schwas. Examples of tense and lax vowels are [i], [o] and [ɪ], [ɔ], respectively. Another characteristic of vowels is rounding. For example, for [u], the lips are rounded, but for [i], the lips are spread. Vowels can be categorized as rounded or unrounded.
The words given as examples for two different symbols may sound the same to you. For example, you may pronounce cot and caught the same, do and dew, or marry and merry. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects).
The terms checked vowel and free vowel correspond closely to the terms lax vowel and tense vowel, respectively, but linguists often prefer to use the terms checked and free, as there is no clear-cut phonetic definition of vowel tenseness, and, because by most given definitions of tenseness, / ɔː / and / ɑː / are considered lax—even though ...
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The phonological word and grammatical word are non-isomorphic. [2] Sometimes what counts as a word for the phonology can be either smaller or larger than what counts as a word for syntactic purposes. A clear case of this mismatch is compound words, which count as two words phonologically, but one in the syntax. [3]
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