Eliza Jane Schneider

Eliza Jane Schneider IPA Mouth Map General American English Sounds

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Tools to help you learn the IPA IPA Tutorial http://dialectblog.com/the-international-phonetic-alphabet/ipa-tutorial/lesson-1/

Interactive IPA Chart with Sounds http://www.ipachart.com/

IPA Hangman http://www.academic.muohio.edu/the233/hangman/

IPA TypeIt – for Typing the IPA http://ipa.typeit.org/

Kinesthetics: How Tongue Positions Relate to IPA Vowel Symbols http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/english/english.html

Front of Tongue Up

[ɪ] in GAE busy into England

Center of the Tongue

[ʌ] In GAE Center of tongue depressed

up Some what

Back of Tongue Arched for Back Vowels This tongue position (arched up in back) is used for [ʊ] as in put and [u:] as in food

Vowel-potamus Tongue Placement Chart