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)