American English Pronunciation Workbook
Examples of the Vowel [æ]
Primary Stress
1.
[æn]
and she'll come in and she'll flop down in a chair
2.
[bæd]
casting off authority and that kind of stuff it was about someone making a bad choice
3.
[bæk]
i go back and now i just don't like it anymore
4.
[pæs]
he never did pass the reading and the writing he passed everything else but
5.
[hæd]
had for
6.
[hæv]
it's the most important freedom we have
7.
[ʤækɪʔt]
tweed jacket
8.
[hæpɛn]
happened
9.
[næʧɹəl]
the natural
10.
[sæmpl̩]
collecting data for a hundred uh the the entire population of the entire universe you you're working with a sample trying to
11.
[ækʃən]
i think he's into scary action
12.
[æftɚ]
after her the whole time the minute she walks in the door yknow
13.
[æftɚ]
like after her two boys were almost grown up
14.
[æfdɚ]
yeah yeah i applied for it and went after it aggressively
15.
[æftə]
after the baby comes she will need to work
16.
[æfʧɹi]
they're not after you
17.
[æɾɪtud]
away from the professional attitude
18.
[ænəml̩s]
herself she's really good with with kids maybe second third grade she's so into animals and so into
19.
[ækʃuli]
yeah my roommate actually had that teacher and
20.
[ækʃəli]
actually
21.
[fæmli]
um my family personally my parents uh
22.
[fæmɪ]
indeed is gonna take away from family i
23.
[pɚhæps]
for me i would have stayed perhaps but
24.
[ɪɡsækli]
i don't know exactly how to explain it
Secondary Stress
25.
[mæθmæɾɪks]
in school they changed the way they were doing their mathematics
26.
[kɑntæk]
kept in contact with them i think
27.
[pɹoʊɡɹæm]
called the gateway program
28.
[æbsəluʔtli]
absolutely
Function words
29.
[æm]
as i am i don't
30.
[æz]
as a sort of ohio representative
31.
[æz]
as a whole we've all
32.
[æʔt]
i can't see them actually looking at like
33.
[æt]
at
34.
[ðæt]
that comes back to the lack of our morals and the lack of
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