monophthongs

In my native dialect, i can only distinguish 9 monophthongs.

there is:

father, bought/bot - /A/
set - /E/
machine - I think this is /i/.
goal - /o/ (usually realized as [7U] when not before /l/ and /r/)
hoop - /u/ Most likely
get - /I/
bat - /{/
hook - /U/, slightly closer to [@] I think.
nut - /6/

I have concluded that these are the only monophthongs in my dialect. Do you have more monophthongs?

I have:

[A] "father"
[Q] "cot, bother"
[E] "set"
[i] "machine" (this one may really be a very narrow diphthong, going from near-close front to close front)
[u] "hoop" (this one is really a diphthong, going from near-close back to close back)
[I] "bit"
[{] "bat"
[U] "hook"
[V] "nut"
[3`] "turn"

(I use monophthongal [i] and [u] in my transcription for the sake of simplicity and convention.)

Actually, "cot, caught" would be a more descriptive label for my [Q].

Also, I think it's an arbitrary choice whether you consider the "turn" vowel to be a rhoticized vowel or a syllabic consonant.

I'd transcribe "turn" as [t=r\n], hence it's not really a monophthong, but a syllabic consonant.

<<Actually, "cot, caught" would be a more descriptive label for my [Q].>>

Yeah, I could have used that, but I went with bot/bought.

I have the monothongs:

[a] "father"
[E_"] "set" (note that some here may lower this, even though in my own idiolect it is not lowered)
[e_o] "pear"
[e] "date"
[I_"] "bit"
[i] "machine" (second syllable)
[@] "machine" (first syllable)
[Q] "cought"
[O] "door"
[V] "nut"
[o] "goal"
[U_"] "hook" (this is generally somewhat centralized, but it is far less centralized in many English dialects)
[u] "hoop"

Some notes, though, is that the long vowels [e:], [i:], and [u:] may actually be the narrow diphthongs [E:e], [I:i], and [U:u] at times, especially when lengthened though being stressed. However, their short counterparts [e], [i], [u], which are always pure monophthongs. Also, this does not occur consistently enough for me to actually transcribe them as [E:e], [I:i], and [U:u] rather than [e:], [i:], [u:].

Also note that there are no true back monophthongs IMD after coronals, because all back vowels partially assimilate to coronals so as to form a rising diphthong with them such that the final position is the normal monophthongal position but the starting position is centralized or, in the case of /tu/ and /du/ in careful speech (where one can have [tyu] and [dyu]), is fronted.

Likewise, all vowels before coda /l/ are really diphthongs or triphthongs due to acquiring the offglide [M_^] or [U_^] depending on whether the vowel is rounded (in the case of diphthongs, depending on whether the vowel ends as rounded).

>>Also, I think it's an arbitrary choice whether you consider the "turn" vowel to be a rhoticized vowel or a syllabic consonant.<<

I myself consider such to just be a syllabic consonant IMD, simply because it is in the same position as my usual coda [R_o] except it is syllabic with respect to syllabification and like.

Note though that I have not generally actually transcribed the assimilation of back vowels to coronals, so that is why such has not really shown up in my transcriptions.

[a_+] trap
[E] set
[E_r] pear
[e] date
[I] bit
[i] machine (second syllable)
[@] machine (first syllable)
[Q] caught, cot, father
[A] start
[o] goat
[O] door
[V_"] nut
[U_"] hook
[u] hoop
[a_"] style

Like Lazar, I often have a slight glide on [i] and [u], especially in open syllables. [o] is always [oU] in open syllables. My [3`] isn't really a monophthong, it's something like [6@`], though it is rounded in some cases. 'Style' is usually pronounced as two syllables before a vowel, so has a monophthong for /aI/, but before a consonant, it would have [a_"o].

I forgot to mention, though, that I also have:

[A] "start"

Such is due to allophony of /a/ before and after /r/ and after /w/.

Whoops, that should be [A] "star", as I have [V] in "start".

I have fifteen monophthongs: seven short and eight long. Though my NEAR and SQUARE vowels are variable sometimes being realised as centring diphthongs [I@] & [e@] respectively (generally where the syllable is open).

THE = [@]
LAD = [{]
STRUT = [6]
LOT = [O]
FOOT = [U]
KIT = [I]
DRESS = [e]

NURSE = [3:]
BAD = [{:]
PALM = [6:]
THOUGHT = [o:]
GOOSE = [u:]
FLEECE = [i:]
NEAR = [I:]
SQUARE = [e:]