English Pronunciation Clinic Week 1: Phonemes Multimedia Study Guide Produced by: Charles Copeland A For EDUC-8347: Designing Instruction for eLearning Dr. Darci Harland Video 3: The Vowels

The Vowels The English alphabet has 5 vowels A, E, I, O, and U The 20 English sounds are written like this The symbols are different mostly different than English /I, U, V, e, {, i:, u:, A: O:, 3:, aI, aU, eI/

The Vowels There can only be one vowel in each syllable of a word. The vowels are broken into three different categories. The short vowels The long vowels Diphthongs (or double vowel sounds)

Short Vowels Short i = /I/ like in ship oo = /U/ like in book Short u = /V/ like in cup Short o = /Q/ like in box No stressed vowel = Short e = /e/ like in ten Short a = /{/ like in hat

Long Vowels Long E = /i:/ like bee Long U = /u:/ like shoe /A:/ like in father /O:/ like in horse /3:/ like in bird or word

Diphthong s like beer like tour Long I = /aI/ like like ‘OY’ = /OI/ like boy Long O like home like bear ‘OW’ = /aU/ like cow Long A = /eI/ like pay

Revie w There are 20 different vowel sounds They do not directly match up with short and long A E I O and U The symbols are very different than the English alphabet They are broken into short vowels, long vowels, and diphthongs

Go to the next Study Guide Week 1: Phonemes All images in the power point were found using the insert online pictures function with the creative commons image search option which is a feature of Microsoft PowerPoint Phoneme information from Celce-Murcia et al. (1996) Video 3: The Vowels