Short Vowels
Let us examine the vowels of the Cot-Caught Merger dialect of English organized in uniskript according to their phonological features and their cross-modal correlations. The phonological analysis of English vowels employed to generate the uniskript ESL considers an inventory composed of six short vowels: æ, ɛ, I, ʌ, ɑ, and ʊ. \cite{1984}. In his analysis, these six basic vowels occupy one mora and need to be followed by a consonant in the coda in order to make a grammatical syllable. Figure \ref{216646} below shows the uniskript ESL short vowels: