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The / ä / sound
- Form your lips into a vertically elongated circle and make a sound.
- If you are producing /a/, your lips are probably spread horizontally. Imagine making a vertical rectangle with your open mouth.
- If you are producing /o/, then drop your jaw further.
The following words have the /ä/ sound
All Hauppauge
Alltell Kragen Auto
Apologize locksmith
Auburndale lot
Autozone mall
Block on
Bob Olive Garden
Boston Oxford
Box Patchogue
Broad Pottery Barn
Call Santa Monica
Coffee saw
Cottage shop
Cox sorry
Dobson Thomas
Domino’s Pizza top
Job U-Haul
Try these phrases:
With a gauze all the pawns odd job
with a P.O. Box Bought a shawl hot spot
on the dot got a mop Clawed up the wall
from abroad in the lawn stop watch
Chalk talk in the box on a cot
tall wall Not shocked locked shop
call of the law
Contrasting /æ/ vs. /ä/
Bank box
Black block
Can con
That thought
Ban bond
Cat caught
Fan fawn
Hat hot
Van vons
Dan dawn/don
Sentence drills
- Please call Cox Communications customer service for that information.
- Boston, Massachusetts, how can I help you?
- I’m sorry, I can’t guarantee the local number of the post office is accurate.
- The name of the sandwich shop is Coffee & Ham.
- Do you have a last name for Thomas?
- Thank you, that’s Domino’s Pizza on Santa Monica Blvd.
- I’m searching by category for locksmiths.
- Blockbuster is on Black St.
- Can I have the exact address of U-Haul on Broad St.
- I have Bank of America listed with a P.O. Box address.
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