PREFACE 9
Sonorant*
Nasal long (Je:rj), longer (1e:rj-g32), bank (baerjk).
nun (nxn), gardener ('ga:z-dn-3z), cardinal ('ka:z-dn-l),
hint (hint). snare
��maim (meem), triumph ('tjai-omf), limp (hmp). humph (MIH), smear (SMI:?).
Oral
lull (Ld), cardino/ Cka:z-dn-l), tatt/e ('taetl). p/ay (pz-ee), s/ow (SLDO).
red (zed), ear (i:zr), earth (B:z9), very ('vezi). free (fsii), throw (Osoo).
Resonants
High-close
whoever Ghu'evaz), shoe (Sou), unit ('juu-nit), cower ('kau-3?); French towt (tu), tour (tuiR); German Zu- fall ('tsu:,tal).
r<?act (d'aekt), eat (lit), scoriae ('skoi-d,!:), buoyant ('bei- 3nt) ; French nt (ni), pfre (pi:a) ; German LtVd (li:t).
High-open
full (fol), poor (po:z), shoe (Sou), unite (jo'nait); Ger-
man Mwff (mof). pity ('piti), hat^d ('hee-tid), axis ('aeksis), for^t'gn
('fezrin), carrtoge ('kaeerids), senote ( x senit). it (it), ear (i\z), eat (lit), high (hai), why (tuai), boy
(bei) ; German bin (bin).
Mid-close
poetic (po'etik), note (noot) ; French pot (po), cote
(ko:t) ; German So/in ('zo:n), Italian leone (le'o:-ne). ov^r ('oo-vaz), sofa ('soo-fa), again (a'gen), truism ('tou-
^zam), taken ('tee-kan), chocolate ('t$ek3-l3t), chest-
nut ('tSesN3t), tackle ('taekal). aereal (e'i:-d-3l), gate (geet); French el6 (e'te); Ger-
man Reh (ae:); Italian pere ('pe:-re).
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