Exercise 1: Transcribe the sound underlined in the words and then describe it.

Example: beat [i:] tense high front vowel

1) bit

2) bet

3) bar

4) food

5) bird

6) lot

Exercise 2:Write the phonetic symbol that corresponds to the articulatory description.

Example: back high lax [u]

1) front high tense

2) back low unrounded

3) central mid lax

4) front low

5) front high lax

6) back mid tense

教师解析:

1. Transcribe the sound underlined in the words and then describe it.

1) [i] lax high front vowel

2) [e] mid front vowel

3) [a:] low back vowel

4) [u:] tense high back vowel

5) [ə:] tense mid central vowel

6) [ɔ] lax mid back vowel

2. Write the phonetic symbol that corresponds to the articulatory description.

1) [i:] 2) [a:] 3) [ə] 4) [æ] 5) [i] 6) [ɔ:]