existing languages.
By convention, the eight primary cardinal vowels are
numbered from one to eight as follows: CV1[ ], CV2[ ],
CV3[ ], CV4[ ], CV5[ ], CV6[ ], CV7[ ], CV8[ ].
A set of secondary cardinal vowels is obtained by reversing
the lip-rounding for a give position: CV9 – CV16. [I am sorry
I cannot type out many of these. If you want to know, you may
consult the textbook p. 47. – icywarmtea]
2.5.3 Vowel glides
Pure (monophthong) vowels: vowels which are produced without
any noticeable change in vowel quality.
Vowel glides: Vowels where there is an audible change of
quality.
Diphthong: A vowel which is usually considered as one
distinctive vowel of a particular language but really involves
two vowels, with one vowel gliding to the other.
2.5.4 The vowels of RP
[ ] high front tense unrounded vowel [ ]
high back lax rounded vowel
[ ] central lax unrounded vowel
[ ] low back lax rounded vowel
2.6 Coarticulation and phonetic transcription