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a. b. [ɪ] c. d. [ʌ] e. [ʊ] f. [e]
g. [ɛ] h. [o] i. [ɔ] j. [æ] k. [a] l. [ə]
m. [aɪ] n. [aʊ] o. [ɔɪ]
A. Take all of the vowels except the schwa and find a monosyllabic
word containing that vowel followed directly by [t], giving both
the spelling and the phonetic transcription
B. Now do the same thing for monosyllabic words ending in [r]. Indicate
when such a word appears not to occur in your dialect of English.
C. And do the same thing for monosyllabic words ending in [ŋ]. Indicate
when such a word appears not to occur in your dialect of English.
D. Is there a quantitative difference in the number of examples found as
you go from A to C?
E. Are most vowels that “work” in B tense or lax? How about in C?
F. Write a brief summary of the difficulties you encountered in trying to
do this exercise.

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@shang he,

Wow, this has amazingly quantifiable factors. Not used to this with language.

my approach would be to comply with the rule and look for three, four and five letter words stating with t and containing a schwa equivalent (e) and use a crossword puzzle word generator (use Google and search) and throw out all polysyllabic (as there is only one vowelthere are few) and long e sounding words. (this could be done by ceating a spreadsheet)

I'd write down the number of examples (with a good dictionary I'd bet there may be beau coups).

Get a phonetic translator sheet and translate.

As for vowels being tense or lax--I need a definition.

And the summary is on you, bub!

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