Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 111 views

    How Are English Long Vowels Different From English Short Vowels?

    Uploaded by

    Joane Massa
    This document discusses long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs in English. Long vowels differ from short vowels in both quality and quantity. Diphthongs are sounds that consist of a glide from one vowel quality to another, while pure vowels remain static. Triphthongs are composed of diphthongs with an additional vowel sound added at the end. The document provides examples of English long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    How Are English Long Vowels Different From English Short Vowels?

    Uploaded by

    Joane Massa
    111 views5 pages
    This document discusses long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs in English. Long vowels differ from short vowels in both quality and quantity. Diphthongs are sounds that consist of a glide from one vowel quality to another, while pure vowels remain static. Triphthongs are composed of diphthongs with an additional vowel sound added at the end. The document provides examples of English long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs.

    Original Description:

    Jdjdjdjd

    Original Title

    Jxjdbbdjdj

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document discusses long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs in English. Long vowels differ from short vowels in both quality and quantity. Diphthongs are sounds that consist of a glide from one vowel quality to another, while pure vowels remain static. Triphthongs are composed of diphthongs with an additional vowel sound added at the end. The document provides examples of English long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    111 views5 pages

    How Are English Long Vowels Different From English Short Vowels?

    Uploaded by

    Joane Massa
    This document discusses long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs in English. Long vowels differ from short vowels in both quality and quantity. Diphthongs are sounds that consist of a glide from one vowel quality to another, while pure vowels remain static. Triphthongs are composed of diphthongs with an additional vowel sound added at the end. The document provides examples of English long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 5

    LECTURE 4 ENGLISH LONG VOWELS, DIPHTHONGS, TRIPHTHONGS

    How are English long vowels different from English short vowels?
    5 long English vowels are different from the 7 short vowels not only in ________________________

    but also in ____________________.

    Quality = ____________________________________________.

    Thus, long vowels have a symbols which are different from those of short vowels; you can see that
    the long and short vowel symbols would still all be different from each other even if we ___________

    ______________________________________________.

    The length mark is used since it helps learners to ______________________________the length


    difference.

    Perhaps the only case where short and long vowels are closely similar in quality is that of ______ and

    _______.

    Examples of English long vowels:


    English short and long vowels:

    Comparison of Slovak and English long vowels (Ološtiak, 2007, p. 52):

    DIPHTHONGS
    Diphthong [ˈdɪfθɒŋ] is a sound which consists of a _________________________________________

    ______________________________________________.

    Pure vowel is a vowel which remains _____________ and does not ___________________.

    The most important thing to remember about diphthongs is that _____________________________

    __________________________________________________________________________________.

    L2 learners of English have to remember that the last part of English diphthongs must not be made
    too strongly.
    Diphthongs (Roach, 2009, p.17)

    Centring diphthongs glide towards ______.

    Centring diphthongs examples:


    Closing diphthongs:

    Closing diphthongs ending in [ɪ] examples:

    Closing diphthongs ending in [ʊ] examples

    Triphthong
    Triphthong [ˈtrɪfθɒŋ] is_______________________________________________________________,
    all produced rapidly and without interruption.

    Triphthongs can be looked on as being composed of the five closing diphthongs described in the last
    section, with _____ added on the end.

    Examples of triphthongs
    List of resources:

    Bázlik, M. – Miškovičová, J. Pravidlá výslovnosti britskej a americkej angličtiny. Iura Edition, s. r. o.,
    2012.

    Cruttenden, A. Gimson’s Pronunciation of English. Routledge, 2014.

    Crystal, D. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Blackvell Publishing, 2008.

    Davenport M. – Hannahs S. Introducing Phonetics and Phonology. Hodder Arnold, 2005.

    Ološtiak, M. Jayykovoštruktúrny a komunikačno-pragmatický status vlastného mena (adaptácia


    anglických proprií v slovenčine. FF PU v Prešove, 2007.

    Richards, J. – Schmidt, R. Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.


    Longman, 2010.

    Roach, P. English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

    Underhill, A. Learning and teaching pronunciation. Macmillan, 2005.

    You might also like