Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Introduction To Phonemic Symbols
Introduction To Phonemic Symbols
symbols
English alphabet
consists of 26 letters
around 44 sounds 20 vowels and 24
consonants.
A vowel sound is a sound produced without
blocking the air flow from the mouth with our
teeth, tongue or lips.
A consonant sound is a sound produced by
blocking the air flow from the mouth with the
teeth, tongue or lips.
IPA
International Phonetic Alphabet is the most
widely used set of symbols for showing the
sounds of a language.
A phonemic symbol is a letter which
represents a sound.
Vowel sounds
Consonant sounds
then
though
that
thought
think
thoroughly
throughout
throat
tough
Digraph
a combination of two letters or characters
used to represent a single speech sound such
as ch, sh, th, wh, qu, etc.
E.g. sh in shoe
Diphtong two vowel sounds pronounced as
one syllable
Syllable
Is a word or part of a word that has one vowel
sound. It may also have one or more
consonant sounds.
e.g. Mother, mum
Word stress
Is the pattern of strong and weak syllables in a
word.
Party - ['pa:ti]
Sentence stress
Is the pattern of strong and weak syllables in a
sentence.
E.g. How do you do? OooO
Vowels
Compare