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Phonetics 1 - Exercise 3 ANSWERS

These are the points you must bring out to get full marks:

• In GA, both BATH and TRAP words have the same vowel, , but in RP they have different vowels, for PALM and  for TRAP.
  (This is the important part: you must state that BATH words have different pronunciations in RP and in GA).
• The TRAP vowel is a fairly open (or low) front vowel, while the PALM vowel is an open (or low) back vowel.
• TRAP is a lax vowel.
• PALM is a tense vowel.

Examples: a full list of TRAP and BATH words can be found on this page