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PRONUNCIATION
OF VOWEL
LETTERS
CONTENT:
1. LETTER-TO-SOUND
RULES: SINGLE VOWEL
LETTERS
Why do plain-tense vowels have broken-tense and plainlax vowels broad-lax counterparts?
What do we call these rules?
Pre-R Breaking:
Pre-R Broadening:
Plain-lax
vowels
are
replaced by their broad
counterparts before r
PRACTICE
Place the following words into the chart.
1. bacon 13. post
2. parent 14. glory
3. cat 15. gone
4. start 16. nor
5. previous 17. music
6. hero 18. during
7. very 19. punish
8. her 20. surface
9. kind
10. pirate
11. mirror
12. afirm
2. LETTER-TO-SOUND
RULES: GRAPHIC POSITION
OF VOWEL-LETTERS
graphic position of a vowel-letter: the
letters that follow it in spelling
two types: free and covered
PRACTICE
Decide if the stressed vowels in the following
words are in free or covered position.
1. spot
2. bank
3. going
4. radio 7. lion
5. cyclist
6. revise
3. LAXING RULES
a. Trisyllabic Laxing Rule: if the stressed vowel is in at least
the third-last syllable of the word, it must be lax
e.g. hesitate
b. Laxing by ending
e.g. metric
solid
c. Laxing by free <u>: if it is followed by a free vowel letter
<u> in the next syllable
e.g. gradual
d. CiV laxing: there is a stressed vowel letter <i> or <y> which
is followed by a consonant letter + another vowel letter <i> +
one more vowel letter
e.g. decision
PRACTICE
Graph.pos.
Rule
Tns/Lx
Pre-R
Trnscr.sym
value
Break./Broad
bol
SOURCES
1.Baloghn Brces Katalin, Szentgyrgyi Szilrd.
Az angol nyelv kiejtse -The Pronunciation of
English.
http://mek.oszk.hu/04900/04910/04910.pdf
2. Ndasdy, dm. Practice Book in English
Phonetics and Phonology. Budapest: Nemzeti
Tanknyvkiad, 2003.