Chapter 5: VowelsLearning new vowelsThursday, April 14, 2011Height distinctions[u][ʊ][o][ɔ][a]EnglishDutch, FrenchGerman, Italian, Polish, Russian, SwedishSpanish, Hawaiian,Swahili, JapaneseHeight is not usually a problem for English speakers...Thursday, April 14, 2011Height distinctions[u][ʊ][o][ɔ][a][u][o][a]Thursday, April 14, 2011Front-back distinctions[ə][ɨ] [ʉ][ɐ]Thursday, April 14, 2011Rounding distinctions[u][ʊ][o][ɔ][a][ə][i][ɪ][e][ɛ][æ][u][ʊ][o][ɔ]EnglishroundedunroundedThursday, April 14, 2011Rounding distinctions[a][i][e]Turkish[u][o][y][ø][ɯ]Thursday, April 14, 2011[a][ə][i][e][ɛ]FrenchRounding distinctions[y][ø][œ][o][ɔ][u]Thursday, April 14, 2011What kind of errors would you expect an English speaker to make with rounding?Thursday, April 14, 2011Monophthongs Diphthongssiː55 “silk”siːu55 “burn”sɛː55 “several”sei33 “four”fuː55 “man/husband” fuːi55 “gray/ashes”saː55 “sand”saːi55 “to waste”DiphthongsCantoneseThursday, April 14, 2011DiphthongsEnglish speakers diphthongize when they shouldn’ttaco [tako][tʰakʰoʊ]treis[tɾes][tɹeɪs]escribo[eskɾiβo][əskɹiɪboʊ]Thursday, April 14, 2011NasalityEnglish doesn’t distinguish nasal vowelsOralNasalOralNasallaid[lɛ]‘ugly’lin[lɛ!]‘flax’leur[lœr]‘their’lundi[lœ!di]‘Monday’las[la]‘tired’lent[lã]‘slow’lot[lo]‘prize’long[lõ]‘longFrenchThursday, April 14, 2011NasalityEnglish doesn’t distinguish nasal vowels[u][ʊ][o][ɔ][a][i][ɪ][e][ɛ]Portuguese[ɐ][ĩ][e!][ɐ!][u!][õ]Thursday, April 14,