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Chapter 3
Describing Vowels
What
is a vowel?
What is your mouth doing when you say
a vowel?
Where is your tongue when you say
vowels?
What are your lips doing when you say
vowels?
Tongue Position
High
Lip position
Rounded
someone
Unrounded (spread) as if you are
smiling
Neutral position lips are relaxed,
similar to when you are not talking
Excellent Chart
See
Kinds of Vowels
Pure
vowels
Diphthongs start out as one vowel and
end up sounding like another vowel
Vowel Length
vowel length is determined by the sound
environment
The sound following the vowel changes its length
o
o
Vowel Length
Syllable
percent
all of it
visit
person
I love it
to sit
Vowel Quality
Vowels
bit /I/
red //
cup //
look //
beat/i/
raid /eI/
cop//
Luke/u/
the following: