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Oral Recitation Grade 9

This document provides a chart summarizing the vowel sounds of American English. It lists the phonetic symbols, key words, and transcriptions for each vowel. It groups the vowels into front vowels, central vowels, back vowels, and diphthongs. The chart is intended to help students learn to correctly pronounce the different vowel sounds in American English words.

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Oral Recitation Grade 9

This document provides a chart summarizing the vowel sounds of American English. It lists the phonetic symbols, key words, and transcriptions for each vowel. It groups the vowels into front vowels, central vowels, back vowels, and diphthongs. The chart is intended to help students learn to correctly pronounce the different vowel sounds in American English words.

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Individual Oral Reading Test

Name:___________________________________________________ Grade: _________________


Rating: _________________

The Vowel Sounds of American English


Phonetic Symbol Key Word Transcription
/i/ bead /bid/
/I/ Bid /bId/
/e/ bake /bek/
/Ɛ/ bet /bƐt/
/ǽ/ bat /bǽt/
/a/ balm /bam/
/ɔ/ bought /bɔt/
/o/ bone /bon/
/ʊ/ book /bʊk/
/ṷ/ boot /bṷt/
/^/ buck /b^k/
/ ∂ / schwa above /∂b^v/
/ɝ/ Burst /bɝst/
/ɚ/ Bunker /b^ŋkɚ

The Front Vowels


/ i / - long e bead bean beater
/ I / - short e bid been bit
/ e / - ‘ey’ bane bait bayed
/ ɛ / - ‘eh’ bed bet Ben
/ǽ/- bad bat ban

The Central Vowels


/a/- modern bazaar bureaucracy
/^/- buck done nut
/ ə / - schwa about absolute arena
/ ɝ / - stressed early bird deter
/ ɚ / - unstressed billiard effort dollar

The Back Vowels


/ɔ/- bought call shaw
/o/- boat cold show
/ʊ/- book could should
/ṷ/- boot cooed stewed

The Diphthongs of American English


/ ɔI / - ‘oy’ coil boil soil
/ aʊ / - ‘aw’ hour ouch ounce
1/ aI / - ‘ai’ aisle senile wide

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