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    The document classifies English vowels according to several principles: 1. Lip position as rounded or unrounded. 2. Horizontal and vertical tongue position from front to back and high to low. 3. Length as long or short vowels and degree of tenseness as tense or lax. It then provides a table analyzing the individual vowels according to these principles and lists their phonetic symbols.

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    Classification of English vowels according to the main principles

    1. Lip position Unrounded (non-labialized) Rounded (labialized)


    front- back- back-
    2. Horizontal movement → front central back
    retracted advanced advanced
    long, tense [i:] [u:]
    high-narrow

    Length and degree of


    short, lax
    high

    long, tense
    high-broad
    short, lax [ɪ] [ʊ]

    4.
    long, tense [ɜ:]
    mid-narrow
    short, lax [e]
    mid
    3.

    long, tense [ɔ:]


    mid-broad
    short, lax [ə] / [ʌ]
    long, tense
    low-narrow
    short, lax
    low

    long, tense [ɑ:]


    low-broad
    short, lax [æ] [ɒ]

    According to the According to the Accordin According to According to the


    Soun According to the lip
    horizontal movements vertical movements of g to the the degree stability of
    d position
    of the tongue the tongue length of tenseness articulation
    High-narrow (Close-
    [i:] Front Unrounded (non-labialized) Long Tense Monophthong
    narrow)
    High-broad (Close-
    [ɪ] Front Unrounded (non-labialized) Short Lax Monophthong
    broad)
    [e] Front Mid-narrow Unrounded (non-labialized) Short Lax Monophthong
    Low-broad (Open-
    [æ] Front Unrounded (non-labialized) Short Lax Monophthong
    broad)
    [ʌ] Central Mid-broad Unrounded (non-labialized) Short Lax Monophthong
    Low-broad (Open-
    [ɑː] Back/ Back-advanced Unrounded (non-labialized) Long Tense Monophthong
    broad)
    Low-broad (Open-
    [ɒ] Back Rounded (labialized) Short Lax Monophthong
    broad)
    Low-narrow (Open-
    [ɔː] Back Rounded (labialized) Long Tense Monophthong
    narrow)
    High-broad (Close-
    [ʊ] Back-advanced Rounded (labialized) Short Lax Monophthong
    broad)
    High-narrow (Close-
    [uː] Back Rounded (labialized) Long Tense Monophthong
    narrow)
    [ɜː] Central Mid-narrow Unrounded (non-labialized) Long Tense Monophthong
    [ə] Central Mid-broad Unrounded (non-labialized) Short Lax Monophthong

    Classification of monophthongs and diphthongs according to the position of the tongue

    Horizontal →
    front front-retracted central back-advanced back
    Vertical ↓
    high-narrow [i:] [u:]
    low mid high

    high-broad [ɪ] / [ɪə] [ʊ] / [ʊə]


    mid-narrow [e] / [eɪ] [ɜ:]
    mid-broad [eə] [əʊ] / [ə] / [ʌ] [ɔ:] / [ɔɪ]
    low-narrow
    low-broad [æ] [aʊ] [ɑ:] / [aɪ] [ɒ]

    There are eight diphthongs in English. They are divided according to the glide. There are:

    1) three diphthongs with a glide towards [ɪ]: [eɪ, aɪ, ɔɪ];

    2) two diphthongs with a glide towards [ʊ]: [ǝʊ, aʊ];

    3) three diphthongs with the glide towards [ǝ]: [ɪǝ, eǝ, ʊǝ].

    The vowels in the articulation of which the organs of speech change their position but very slightly are called diphthongized
    vowels or diphthongoids: [iː, uː].

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