American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Vowel []


Primary Stress

1.   [maʊθ]

in her mouth and she couldn't breath and breathed in all the sand and died

2.   [paʊnds]

about ninety five pounds

3.   [haʊs]

and at whetstone park they used to have shelter house in the summer they held teen dances

4.   [aʊɚz]

three hours and you don't really

5.   [daʊn]

a down

6.   [taʊn]

now mind you if you're doing that anytime during the day that won't happen because you've got cars all around you but at night it's pretty fun and you just floor it and fly right through the middle of down town

7.   [paʊnz]

eighty pounds

8.   [saʊθ]

a little bit south of campus fourth street and fifth avenue near there fourth street and

9.   [taʊm]

don't think it was ever such a small town where it was like everybody knew each other

10.   [daʊn]

something really goes down

11.   [haʊs]

yeah they really like it they have a huge house

12.   [saʊn]

yknow i kind of threw that in there make it sound bad

13.   [saʊnd]

the sound decision to be sterilized but at the same time like

14.   [paʊɚ]

fighting against nuclear power

15.   [kaʊnsl̩]

student council i'm good at school but bad outside of school

16.   [daʊntaʊn]

oh probably fifteen twenty years ago i worked downtown

17.   [aʊʔtkəmz]

specific to the traumatic brain injury service looking at long term outcomes in people that have sustained traumatic brain injuries

18.   [kaʊnɚ]

counter battery fire we called it which

19.   [θaʊzɪnz]

thousands

20.   [daʊnhɪl]

really really big mistake i got to college and it just went downhill

21.   [bækɡɹaʊnd]

restricted someone because of their ethnic background or because of their gender

22.   [kaʊəɹdz]

you know that they're cowards as far as going out and killing themselves but they want to kill themselves slowly by drinking themselves to death or

23.   [əbaʊt]

about uh

24.   [əbaʊ]

what marriage is all about but i see marriage as

25.   [əbaʊt]

what to believe about something

26.   [əmaʊn]

farm a certain amount of what i mean

27.   [əɹaʊn]

around where we useta live just

28.   [ɪɹaʊm]

all my family still lives around me

29.   [əɹaʊnt]

i worked but i arranged my life around her so that

30.   [ɚɹaʊn]

when you got like minded people around yknow

31.   [əɹaʊnd]

he could he just knew how to get around anything

32.   [ɚaʊnd]

were able to get up and walk around

33.   [ɚaʊnd]

yknow they just aren't around anymore it's not the same anymore where

34.   [əɹaʊnd]

take him in on the kitchen floor so he can roam around

35.   [ɚɹaʊn]

when you got like minded people around yknow

36.   [əɹaʊnd]

they're all around so it's not the neighborhood thing as much

37.   [aʊtsaɪd]

she and this little boy they're outside and he they're jumping and he's jumping on the trampoline i go out to him and i introduce myself and i say yknow honey i said

38.   [aʊsaɪɾ]

student council i'm good at school but bad outside of school

39.   [aʊtsaɪd]

and i were outside playing and

Secondary Stress

40.   [faʊndeɪʃən]

that's for the benefit of the homeless families foundation

41.   [aʊtsaɪd]

the parts of american culture that do get outside of america

42.   [aʊʔtsaɪd]

kick my you know what and everything i said well be outside you know

43.   [bækɡɹaʊn]

most people that raised in that background he said they go two different ways ones they

44.   [bækɡɹaʊnd]

restricted someone because of their ethnic background or because of their gender


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