[General] The '' a '' sound

The apprentice · Oct 15, 2013

Dear teachers and members:

I know that the '' a '' sound is an open or low vowel that it always occurs in diphthongs and triphthongs as in the words:

LIKE /laɪk/

TIE /taɪ/

COW /kaʊ/

MOUTHS /maʊðz/

OUR /aʊər, ˈaʊ

ər/

TOWER /ˈtaʊ

ər/

BUYER /ˈbaɪ

ər/

I would like to know if this vowel is front, central, not fully front or slightly central.

Regards,

The Apprentice

Odessa Dawn · Oct 15, 2013

The apprentice said:
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I would like to know if this vowel is front, central, not fully front or slightly central.

***NOT A TEACHER***

It is a low central vowel (tense).

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5jj · Oct 16, 2013

Cardinal Vowel 4, [a] is a front vowel. In the RP diphthong /aɪ/, the glide begins a little behind this front position - it is close to [[FONT=&quot]ä][/FONT]. In RP, the glide begins in a more central position, slightly in front of [FONT=&quot][[/FONT]ɑ].

These two diphthongs are pronounced in a variety of ways in BrE, I have mentioned only standard RP.

Odessa Dawn · Oct 16, 2013

5jj said:
Cardinal Vowel 4, [a] is a front vowel.

:up:

If you mean the sound a in the word father, we have no problem here. However, if it is the sound in the word stop, then a question has to be raised.

I have a copy from a book by name An Intensive Personalized Program in Perception, Pronunciation, Practice in Context - written by Joan Morley says that a in the word stop is a low central tense. That note has been extracted from unit two. That copy is not going to be worthy from now on. Thank you, 5jj.

5jj · Oct 16, 2013

Odessa Dawn said:
If you mean the sound a in the word father, we have no problem here. However, if it is the sound in the word stop, then a question has to be raised.

Neither of these sounds is exactly the same as Cardinal Vowel 4.

[General] The '' a '' sound

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