• Post subject: Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:35 pm
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[englishtext]1- Long vowels: We use the length mark ':' with long vowels only to remind you that these vowels tend to be long and just to notice that these five long vowels are different from the six short vowels in length and quality{the difference is resulting from differences in tongue shape and position , and lip position}. For long vowels and short vowels, there are several question about them. But the most important and common one is : Describe the vowel in this word.
Now, the long vowels and their description:
1- /i:/ it is front, close, and the lips are spread. Eg: 'feet' , 'speak' , 'chief' , 'people'. 2- /3:/ it is central, open-mid, and the lips are neutral. Eg: 'ear' , 'impersonal' , 'fern'. Back, open, and the lips are neutral. It is / : 3- / 4-/ : / it is back, close-mid, and the lips are rounded. Eg: 'sword' , 'cord' , 'call' , 'walk'. 5- / u: / it is back, close, and the lips are rounded. Eg: 'rude' , 'true' , 'fruit' , 'two'.
Diphthongs: They are the sounds which consist of a movement or glide from one vowel to another. They are combination of two vowels. The first part is much longer and stronger than the second part. The diphthongs are: 1- Centring diphthongs which end in schwa: / I schwa/ Eg: 'beard' , 'Ian' , 'fierce. /e schwa/ Eg: 'aired' , 'cairn' , 'scarce'. /U schwa/ Eg: 'moored' , 'tour'.
2- closing diphthongs which end in I /eI/ Eg: 'paid' , 'pain' , 'face'. /aI/ Eg: 'tide' , 'time' , 'nice'. / I / Eg: 'void' , 'lion' , 'voice'.
3- Closing diphthongs which end in U /schwa U/ Eg: 'load' , 'home' , 'most'. /aU/ Eg: 'loud' , 'gown' , 'house'.
Triphthongs: A triphthong is a glide from one vowel to another and then to a third. They are composed of the five closing diphthongs with schwa in the end. They are: eI+schwa = eI schwa Eg: 'layer' , 'player'. aI +schwa = aI schwa Eg: 'liar' , 'fire'. I +schwa= I schwa Eg: 'loyal' , 'royal'. Schwa U+ schwa= schwa U schwa Eg: 'lower' , 'mower'. aU +schwa= aU schwa Eg: 'power' , 'hour'. That is all the information of this chapter…. In this chapter, you have just to study what I wrote.
Homework: 1- Tell if these words have long vowels, diphthong, or triphthong, but do not look them up from the dictionary, try by yourself.
Boon, born, first, eager, lime, narrow, society.
2- Guess which words have long vowel and which words have short vowel in the following words , but without looking them up from the dictionary, try by yourself.
crazy angel,
I know that you do not know when you finish the exam
but I am doing that now because when you want them you will find them immediately in a very simple way of explanation
• Post subject: Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:12 pm
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الله يخليك الشرف لي اني اكوون في هذا المنتدى المفيد والصراحه ما توقعت يجي الرد بهذه السرعه وهذا دليل على تفاانيكم ومحبتكم لمسااعده الاخرين الشكر الجزيل لكم ولهذا المنتدى الجميل يب انا عارف انهو قديم بس انا بحثت في قوقل ودخلت ع منتداكم الحلو هذا يسلموووو شكررا الف شكر موااقع مفيده جدااا وهذا بالضبط الي كنت ادووره تعبتك معي خيوووو ثاااااااااانكس
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