phonetics homework
Answer the following questions
1. What is the difference between the vowel a and the diphthong aw?
2. What is the difference between the vowel o and the diphthong oy?
3. What is the difference between the vowel i and the diphthong ay?
4. What does it mean when we say that the vowels i, e, o, u are diphthongal in California
English?
5. What does it mean when we say that the vowels i, e, o, u are monophthongal in many other varieties of English, for example Nigerian English? What is the difference between
California o and Nigerian o in English?
6. What does it mean to say that the diphthong ay is monophthongal in Southern English
and African American English?
