Lipreading alphabet: Jaw dropped vowels (long a, short a, long i, ah)

The long a sound

How the long a sound looks and how it is made:
The sound is produced by the tongue positioned in a forward high location in the oral cavity, with the sides of the tongue touching the upper teeth, and the tip of the tongue slightly behind the front lower teeth. The jaw is relaxed and slightly open, and the lips make no movement.

Examples:
weight (1) weight (2) way (1) way (2) bay (1) bay (2) bay (3) wage (1) wage (2) wave (1) wave (2) whale (1) whale (2) whale (3) wake place play case cakes

The short a sound

How the short a sound looks and how it is made:
The jaw (lower manidble) is lowered and the sound produces a vibration in the vocal chords. The lips make no movement with this sound, and remain slightly apart. The feeling for this sound comes from the lower jaw being slightly lower than other front vowel sounds, and the low-forward position of the tongue, in addition to the vibration of the vocal chords.

Examples:
man (1) man (2) man (3) man (4) can than (1) than (2) than (3) than (4) than (5) Mad (1) mad (2) mad (3) ran san (1) san (2) van (1) van (2) van (3) van (4)

The long i sound

How the long i sound looks and how it is made:
The tongue begins in a low-back position in the mouth, and moves to a mid-high front position. The jaw, is open but moves to a more closed position with this sound. The lips make no movement, and have an open relaxed posture, and only move when the jaw moves to slightly closed position. The feeling with this sound is in the low- back position of the tongue as it moves to a mid-high position, as if undulating, and that the jaw is lower to begin with and moves to nearly close.

Examples:
time (1) time (2) chime tight (1) tight (2) lime (1) lime (2) mine (1) mine (2) mine (3) life (1) life (2) life (3)

The ah sound

How the ah sound looks and how it is made:
The tongue is positioned in a low-back part of the mouth, the jaw (lower mandible) is lowered, and the lips are in a rounded because of how low the jaw is. The vocal cords vibrate. The feeling with this sound is that the jaw is low, that it feels almost dropped, the sound produces the vibration in the vocal cords, and the tongue is low and back in a bunched up sort of way.

Examples:
park (1) park (2) park (3) pot (1) pot (2) pot (3) cart (1) cart (2) cart (3) chaos got (1) got (2) mock calm (1) calm (2) lock (1) lock (2) want watched (1) watched (2) washed (1) washed (2)

Words that show the shapes of long a, short a, long i, ah:

Initial:
able (1) able (2) April (1) April (2) April (3) April (4) April (5) aid Amy
ask act (1) act (2) an (1) an (2) alphabet apparatus avenue
eye isolate eyes (1) eyes (2)
art (1) art (2) on (1) on (2) August (1) August (2) August (3) August (4) August (5) October (1) October (2) October (3) October (4) olive are

Middle:
name table (1) table (2) Great. (1) Great. (2) safe (1) safe (2) vacation save (1) save (2) wait (1) wait (2) whale (1) whale (2) whale (3)
laugh (1) laugh (2) hand (1) hand (2) land (1) land (2) fact (1) fact (2) Had (1) had (2) had (3) thank (1) thank (2) mask
lights (1) lights (2) sign (1) sign (2) sign (3) sign (4) wipe (1) wipe (2) fight (1) fight (2) fight (3) like (1) like (2) live (1) live (2) live (3) live (4) wife (1) wife (2) line (1) line (2)
large (1) large (2) large (3) mirage Hard (1) hard (2) Heart (1) heart (2) heart (3) Washington (1) Washington (2) Moscow Barcelona

Final:
day hay May (1) May (2) May (3) May (4) May (5) say (1) say (2)

tie (1) tie (2) eye why (1) why (2) why (3) why (4) guy (1) guy (2) Hi! (1) hi (2) apply dry (1) dry (2) dry (3)

Combined sounds:
dehydrated chaos apparatus isolate vacation alphabet

Phrases that show the shapes of long a, short a, long i, ah:

My wife doesn't like to wait in lines.
Have you eaten at that restaurant?
It's a real dark night so watch your driving.
I want to wish you a happy birthday.
I think that I have a cold.

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