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4 Licensing

[edit] Summary

Description in terms of clock hours and compass azimuth:

Symbol	hour	azimuth
ɑ	1:00	30°
ʌ	12:30	15°
a	12:00	0°
æ	11:00	330°
ɛ	10:00	300°
e	9:00	270°
ɪ	8:00	240°
i	7:00	210°
u	5:00	150°
ʊ	4:00	120°
o	3:00	90°
ɔ	2:00	60°
ə	hub of wheel

The diagram is a subjective, kinesthetic impression of the position of the mouth while pronouncing monophthongs which occur in broad transcription of General American English: the position of the mouth perceived synaesthetically as a vector pointing in a certain direction. In the diagram the vectors are shown as spokes. (Note: by "position of the mouth" is meant especially the position of the upper jaw with respect to the lower jaw.)

The caret is a traitor: it is actually a /ɐ/ and it is ordinarily (non-phonetically) written as a 'u', so it should be expected to be located at the 6 o'clock position in the wheel (next to /u/) instead of at 12 thirty. Had it not been for this betrayal then schwa's company would have been quite harmonious.

[edit] Media

Listen to the vowels in the wheel be pronounced inside words:

Kinesthetic English-IPA Vowel Wheel Sounds

Sound file which reads a series of twelve words which contain the vowels around the kinesthetic vowel wheel. The vowels are read off counterclockwise, starting from 12 o'clock.

Problems playing the files? See media help.

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[edit] Licensing

I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:44, 8 October 2005	899×887 (256 KB)	AugPi (Talk \| contribs)	(Revision: move the [u] from 6 o'clock to 5 o'clock position.)
	14:09, 28 September 2005	618×631 (204 KB)	AugPi (Talk \| contribs)	( <small>Made by AugPi. <br> ©AugPi, 2005. <br></small>)