IPA Presentation

Arielle Zaytsev
 Ɔ - Open “O”
A rounded sound that approaches “o” more so
than “a”, lax mid back rounded vowel

Draw the symbol like you would an “o” except

draw in the opposite direction and leave a gap,
add a small blob at the bottom point of the “Ɔ”

Dog, thought, all

 O - Pure O
Tense mid back rounded vowel, “Say ‘go’ but freeze after saying the [g]
and round your lips”

Draw a circle

Go, hope, boat

 u - Lowercase “U”
Tense high back rounded vowel, the lips are
rounded and the tongue is drawn back

Draw symbol like a normal lowercase “u”, with an

added tail to the end of the stem

Ooze, prune, blue

 Ʊ - Upsilon
Lax high back rounded vowel, similar to [u] in that
the lips are rounded and the tongue is drawn back
(not as far back as [u] though)

Draw the symbol like a rounded “u” and adding the

two serifs (hooks) on the top

Put, book, butcher

 q - Voiceless Uvular Stop
Back of the tongue at the uvula

Draw symbol like a normal “q”

Back (Dublin), caught (Australian), cut (London)

 . - Full Stop
Marks syllable breaks like in the word
"astronomical" ⟨/ˌæs.trəˈnɒm.ɪk.əl/⟩

Written as a period
 [ʰ] - Aspiration
Aspiration of preceding sound

Draw a small lowercase [ʰ] after a different

symbol, for instance pʰ or dʰ

Tap, top, stop

 ◌̚ - No Audible Release
Also known as an unreleased stop, a stop whose
release can't be heard

Written as a “corner” after consonant; for

instance, d̚

Catnip [kæt ̚nɪp], widen [ˈwajd ̚n̩], button [ˈbʌt ̚n̩]

 ◌̯ - Non-syllabic
Phonetic situations where a vowel seems to be pronounced as "a glide"

Drawn under a symbol to mark it as non-syllabic, e̯

Difference between vowels and non-syllabic is that it is shorter in duration

Fly (open syllable ending in a diphthong [flaɪ̯] or as a closed syllable ending in a

consonant [flaj])
 ◌̝ - Raised
Articulated with the tongue or lip raised higher to the roof of the mouth to make
the sound higher

Drawn as an tiny upside down T under the symbol being raised; for instance, e̝, ɹ̝
(voiced alveolar fricative)