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vowels: Phonetics cloze quiz about Cardinal vowels

Posted on April 30, 2025 by 24-7

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Cloze exercise in which two randomly-selected Cardinal vowels have to be described according to the three parameters vowel height, frontness-backness, and lip rounding.

Preview:

Describe the following Cardinal vowels according to the three parameters vowel height, frontness-backness, and lip rounding:

  1. [e] is the vowel.
  2. [ɶ] is the vowel.

Describe the following Cardinal vowels according to the three parameters vowel height, frontness-backness, and lip rounding:

  1. [ɶ] is the vowel.
  2. [o] is the vowel.

Describe the following Cardinal vowels according to the three parameters vowel height, frontness-backness, and lip rounding:

  1. [ʉ] is the vowel.
  2. [i] is the vowel.

Description:

This cloze exercise randomly selects two out of 18 Cardinal vowels and then uses three single-choice elements each to describe their parameters. It is particularly well-suited for drop-down menus and also illustrates how Unicode symbols can be used for the phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (which requires the fontspec package in XeLaTeX for PDF output).

Randomization:

Shuffling (2 out of 18 Cardinal vowels)

Mathematical notation:

No

Verbatim R input/output:

No

Demo code:

library("exams")

set.seed(403)
exams2html("vowels.Rmd")
set.seed(403)
exams2pdf("vowels.Rmd", texengine = "xelatex", usepackage = "fontspec",
  header =  "\\setmainfont{Doulos SIL}")

set.seed(403)
exams2html("vowels.Rnw")
set.seed(403)
exams2pdf("vowels.Rnw", texengine = "xelatex", usepackage = "fontspec",
  header =  "\\setmainfont{Doulos SIL}")

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