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vowels: Phonetics cloze quiz about Cardinal vowels

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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.

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

  1. [e] is the closenear-closeclose-midmidopen-midnear-openopen frontfront centralizedcentralback centralizedback unroundedrounded vowel.
  2. [ɶ] is the closenear-closeclose-midmidopen-midnear-openopen frontfront centralizedcentralback centralizedback unroundedrounded vowel.

For an overview of the 18 Cardinal vowels see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_vowels.

  1. [e] is the close-mid front unrounded vowel.
  2. [ɶ] is the open front rounded vowel.

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

  1. [ɶ] is the closenear-closeclose-midmidopen-midnear-openopen frontfront centralizedcentralback centralizedback unroundedrounded vowel.
  2. [o] is the closenear-closeclose-midmidopen-midnear-openopen frontfront centralizedcentralback centralizedback unroundedrounded vowel.

For an overview of the 18 Cardinal vowels see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_vowels.

  1. [ɶ] is the open front rounded vowel.
  2. [o] is the close-mid back rounded vowel.

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

  1. [ʉ] is the closenear-closeclose-midmidopen-midnear-openopen frontfront centralizedcentralback centralizedback unroundedrounded vowel.
  2. [i] is the closenear-closeclose-midmidopen-midnear-openopen frontfront centralizedcentralback centralizedback unroundedrounded vowel.

For an overview of the 18 Cardinal vowels see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_vowels.

  1. [ʉ] is the close central rounded vowel.
  2. [i] is the close front unrounded 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).
Solution feedback:
Yes
Randomization:
Shuffling (2 out of 18 Cardinal vowels)
Mathematical notation:
No
Verbatim R input/output:
No
Images:
No
Other supplements:
No
Raw: (1 random version)
PDF:
vowels-Rmd-pdf
vowels-Rnw-pdf
HTML:
vowels-Rmd-html
vowels-Rnw-html

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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