Vowels - Phonetics and Phonology
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VOWELS
What are vowel sounds?
Phonetics & PhonologyPhonology
Sounds & contrastSelection & organization in a given pattern
Phonetics
Physical aspects Phonic substance Function Characteristics
HOW?WHERE
?
The ear hears phonetics, the brain hears phonology!The ear hears phonetics, the brain hears phonology!
VOWELS CHART
CLOSE
HALF CLOSE
HALF OPEN
OPEN
1- Height of the tongue
2- Part of the tongue raised
3- Shape of the lips.
4- Tenseness of the tongue
5- Acoustic description
6- Length
EXAMPLES
Phonetic Features: Phonological Features:
1- Distribution
2- Variants
Pure Vowels
/həd//hæd/
/hɑːd/
/hed//hɜːd/
/hɪd/ /hiːd/
/hɒd//hɔːd/
/hʊd/
/huːd/
/hʌt/
e
ɑː
ɜː
iː
ɒʌ
uː
ʊ
ɔː
ɪ
æ
ə
DIPHTHONGS
DefinitionClassification: Direction,
Distance & Prominence
eɪ
aɪ
ɔɪ
əʊ
aʊɪə
eə
ʊə
/leɪt/
/naɪs/
/pɔɪzn/
/həʊm/
/braʊn/
/bɪə/
/beə//tʊə/
TRIPHTHONGS
Definition
eɪə
aɪə
ɔɪə
əʊə
aʊə
/meɪəneɪz/
/ədmaɪə/
/lɔɪəl//ləʊə/
/taʊəl/
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Why is learning the vowel sounds so important?
Vowels are the building blocks of words. By practicing to understand and hear vowels properly, we will also improve:
A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth, or brother, And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear, And then there's doze and rose and lose-Just look them up- and goose and choose, And cork and work and card and ward And font and front and word and sword, And do and go and thwart and cart- Come, I've hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive! I'd learned to speak it when I was five! And yet to write it, the more I sigh, I'll not learn how 'til the day I die.
To sum up, we have realized that learning phonetics has helped us to
correct some fossilized mistakes, improving our pronunciation and grammatical features of this wonderful language
A little poem
Thank you for listening!