VOWELS AND VOWEL GLIDES


Unit 3: Vowels and Vowel Glides

Unit 3 describes RP pure vowels and complex vowels (or vowel glides) in comparison with those of PSp.

Introduction

The exercises included in this unit are specially devised to facilitate improvement targetting the potential weaknesses that speakers of Spanish may have to improve in their production and perception of RP sounds (e.g. difficult or subtle phonemic contrasts, sounds that exist in English but not in Spanish, and so on). Please refer to the Sound Bank section for a full description of each sound in terms of (1) IPA symbol, (2) identification, (3) articulatory description, (4) common and rare spellings, (5) written and audio examples in isolation and in context, (4) animated illustration, (6) comparison with Spanish.