English Speech Sounds

Introduction English Speech Sounds In this book, we use the following symbols to represent English phonemes . Symbol Sound Symbol Sound /ā/ angel, rain /g/ gift, dog /ă/ cat, apple /h/ happy, hat /ē/ eat, seed /j/ jump, bridge /ĕ/ echo, red /l/ lip, fall /ī/ island, light /m/ mother, home /ĭ/ in, sit /n/ nose, on /ō/ oatmeal, bone /p/ pencil, pop /ŏ/ octopus, mom /r/ rain, care /ŭ/ up, hum /s/ soup, face /oo/ oodles, moon /t/ time, cat /o˘o/ put, book /v/ vine, of /ә/ above, sofa /wh/ what, why /oi/, /oy/ oil, boy /w/ wet, wind /ou/, /ow/ out, cow /y/ yes, beyond /aw/, /ô/ awful, caught /z/ zoo, because /är/ car, far /th/ thing, health /ôr/ four, or /th/ this, brother /ûr/ her, bird, turn /sh/ shout, machine /b/ baby, crib /zh/ pleasure, vision /k/ cup, stick /ch/ children, scratch /d/ dog, end /ng/ ring, finger /f/ phone, golf sample 16