Education for oki
University of Departmen of
Anbar HB English
College of il, First Stage
Huminties ater pi Morning Studies
Phonetics
English simple
vowels
Student:Yasser
Abd sachit
Prof. Dr. Muslih
sh. AhmedEnglish simple vowels
Vowels :are made by voiced air passing
through different mouth shapes
The differences in the shape of the
mouth are caused by different position
of the tongue and of the lips
Simple vowels examples :
/i: / in word see
/e/ in word get
/\/ in word bidA vowel is a particular kind of speech
sound made by changing the shape of
the upper vocal tract, or the area in the
mouth above the tongue. In English it is
important to know that there is a
difference between a vowel sound and a
[letter] in the [alphabet]. In English there
are five vowel letters in the alphabet.
The sounds of English are written with
letters in the English alphabet, as either
vowels or consonants. All English words
are written with vowel letters in them.
These letters are vowels in English:
A, E, |, O, U, and sometimes Y.
It is said that Y is "sometimes" a vowel,
because the letter Y represents both
vowel and consonant sounds. In the
words cry, sky, fly, my and why, letter Y
represents the vowel sound /a1/. In
words like myth and synchronize, Y
represents the vowel sound /1/. In words
like only, quickly, and folly, Y represents
the vowel sound /i/.It can also be a consonant sound called
a glide as in the beginning of these
words: yellow, yacht, yam, yesterday. Y
is a consonant about 2.5% of the time,
and a vowel about 97.5% of the time.[1]
The letter W can sometimes be the
second part of a vowel sound as in
words like such as cow, bow, or how. In
these words the vowel has the sound
of /au/. The letter W can be used as a
consonant sound at the beginning of in
the words when, where, wet. In some in
some languages, like Welsh, the letter W
represents the vowel sound /2/, like
cwm (a kind of valley).
In written English the six vowel letters
are used to represent the 13-15 vowel
sounds (depending on the variety) in
English.[2] This means there are many
more vowel sounds than letters in the
English alphabet, and the English
spelling systems doesn t always help us
figure out what the English sounds are.
This can be confusing.
Republic of Iraq قارعلا ةيروهمج Ministry of higher education يلاعلا ميلعتلا ةرازو Al-Muthanna university ىنثملا ةعماج College of engineering ةسدنهلاةيلك chemical department