The topic: English mixed vowel phonemes
Group: Filologiya I group
Completed by: Karimov Abdurahmon
Subject: English folonogy
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English mixed vowel phonemes - The English Language has 44 English sounds. They can be divided into two main categories: consonants and vowels. A consonant sound is a sound where the airflow is stopped, either partially or completely, when the sound is uttered.
- On the other hand, a vowel sound is a sound where the airflow is unstopped when the sound is produced. The vowel sounds are the rhyme or shift of our language. Monophthongs and diphthongs are the two categories of vowel sounds. Vowel sounds are also divided into long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds.
- In English, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y are the vowel letters. The rest of the letters in the alphabet represent consonants such as b, d, g, n, r, s, and t. some consonants produce more than one sound.
What is a Vowel? - What is a Vowel?
- A vowel is a speech sound where the mouth is open and the tongue doesn’t touch the top of the mouth, the teeth, etc. so that the flow of air is not limited. A vowel is a sound made by blowing air out of the mouth without closing your mouth or teeth. It is the louder sounding part of a word. It is necessary to know that there is a difference between a vowel sound and a vowel letter in the alphabet.
- The English vowel sounds are written with letters in the English alphabet. All English words have vowel letters. They are vowels in English: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y. Y is “sometimes” a vowel because the letter Y presents both vowel and consonant sounds, like ‘fry’.
- Six vowel letters are used to indicate the 13-15 vowel sounds in English. This means the vowel sounds are more than letters in the English alphabet. Monophthongs and diphthongs are the two main categories of vowel sounds.
Close Vowel - Close Vowel
- Close vowel occurs when our tongue raises towards the roof of our mouth. Because of that, our mouth will be closed, so it’s called a close vowel. However, the close vowel category can be more specific based on the intensity of more high or more low our tongue is. We can use the vowel chart to make it easier for us to identify the close vowels. Here are the examples:
- Close : [i] See
Diphthongs The diphthong is a sound formed by two vowels that are articulated like a single syllable. Usually it begins with a vowel, then moves on to other vowels as we spell out the syllable.
We use the digraph symbol to represent a diphthong vowel. These are the list of the examples:
- Sight [a?]
- Mouse [a?]
- Toy [??]
- Make [e?]
- Fur [??]
Read more on Examples of 8 Diphthong Sounds.
Now let’s see the classification of vowels based on the tongue height.
Monophthongs - Monophthongs
- Also known as pure and stable vowels because the monophthong articulated as one sound just like the original form of the letter.
- Below are some of the pronunciation symbols of the monophthong vowel letters and the example for each.
Open Vowel - Open Vowel
- When we spell the open vowel, our tongue will move down towards the lower jaw that makes our mouth open, so it’s called an open vowel.
- let’s look to the word that include an open vowel in it.
Front Vowel - Front Vowel
- When we placed our tongue in the front section of our mouth as we spelled a word, it makes the vowel called the front vowel. However, it must not create any constriction with its pronunciation that can turn it into a consonant.
- These are the vowel that include in the front vowels:
- Island [i]
- East [e]
- Have [a]
- Pin [?]
- Cake [e?]
- Cat [æ]
Back Vowel - Back Vowel
- When we placed our tongue at the back section of our mouth as we spelled a word, it makes the back vowel sounds.
- Examples of back vowel:
- Book [u]
- Egyptian [?]
- Go [o]
- Oops [U]
- All [)]
Rounded Vowel
In this case, our mouth will form like a circle when we articulate a syllable with a rounded vowel in it.
Examples of rounded vowels:
- Note
- Look
- Rule
- Boot
- Well (semivowel)
Tense Vowel - Tense Vowel
- We need to give more effort and use more muscle to articulate this kind of vowel. And also, our tongue slightly goes to a higher position and doing its job for more duration than the lax vowels.
- Below are the examples of tense vowel:
- Palm
- Thought
- Nurse
- Goose
- Fleece
Lax Vowel
This kind of vowel needs consonants to follow it. They do not occur alone at the ends of the word. Lax vowels are also shorter than tense vowels.
Below are the example of lax vowels:
- Ink
- Red
- Said
- Sand
- Brother
- Gone
- Pull
- Teacher
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