Table 2.
Feature matrix for IT analysis of the Vowels task.
| æ | eɪ |
ɑ
|
ε
|
i
|
ᴉə | e | ɪ | aɪ | ɜ | ɒ | əʊ | u: | ɔ
|
aʊ | ɔɪ | Λ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height | no | cm-fc | o | om | c | nc-m | cm | nc | o-nc | om | o | m-nc | c | om | o-nc | om-nc | om |
| Backness | f | f-nf | b | f | f | nf-c | f | nf | f-nf | c | b | c-nb | b | b | f-nb | b-nf | b |
| Roundedness | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | y | ny | y | y | ny | yn | n |
| Length | s | l | l | l | l | l | s | s | l | l | s | l | l | l | l | l | s |
| Diphthong? | n | y | n | n | n | y | n | n | y | n | n | y | n | n | y | y | n |
For Height, o, open; no, near-open; om, open-mid; m, mid; cm, close-mid; nc, near-close; c, close. For Backness, b, back; nb, near-back; c, central; nf, near-front; f, front. For Roundedness, y, rounded and n, unrounded. For Length, s, short and l, long. For Diphthong, y, diphthong and n, monophthong. Dashes indicate the separation of the diphthong descriptions into monophthongal elements, in temporal order.