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Title: MONOTHONG AND DIPHTHONG
Description: Students that are in 4th year would find this notes on vowels helpful because the lecturer pointed out that many of the students were absent.
Description: Students that are in 4th year would find this notes on vowels helpful because the lecturer pointed out that many of the students were absent.
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MONOTHONG AND DIPHTHONG
Define:
a) Monothong
It is a vowel sound that throughout its duration has a single constant articulation sound
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g bed, pap, pep, pip
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g boat, meat
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Diphthongs are formed when separate vowels are run together in rapid speech during a
conversation e
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sane, boy, mane
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Tense vowels and lax vowels
Tense vowels are longer while lax vowels are shorter
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They can be much longer than the lax vowels but under
certain conditions they become clipped or shortened to roughly lax vowel length
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e
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Examples
/i:/
as in fleece, feed, tree, stream
/a:/
as in palm, calm, part, pass, heart
/):/
as in thought, daughter, fault, talk
/u:/
as in goose, glue, feud, moon
/3:/
as in nurse, err, bird, earth, turn, word
Lax Vowels
Also called short vowels
They are shorter than tense vowels – When stressed they are always checked, that is, they do not
occur alone at the end of words but always need a following consonant
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‘shwa’ bacon, London, occur, china
Long and short vowels
A vowel can either be long or short depending on the position of the word and the pronunciation
of that word
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Examples
A
Short -
/E/
Fat
Ee
Short - /E/
Wet
Long
/ei/
fate
Long /i:/
Wheat
Ii
Short - /ε/
Win
Long /i:/
wine
Oo
Short - /Q/
Boat
Long /ou/
boat
Uu
Short /Λ/
Cup
Long /ju/
cȗbe
Define
1
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g
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Examples
Cat and fat are two different words but there is only one sound that is different between the two
words i
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the first sound
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2
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A vowel retaining the same quality throughout its duration
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Phone
A phone is a particular realization (pronunciation) of a phoneme
Title: MONOTHONG AND DIPHTHONG
Description: Students that are in 4th year would find this notes on vowels helpful because the lecturer pointed out that many of the students were absent.
Description: Students that are in 4th year would find this notes on vowels helpful because the lecturer pointed out that many of the students were absent.