Consonants before /w/ become labialized – regressive assimilation
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 478.
Twelve, twenty, twice, dwarf, dwell, quick, swim
1) Types of syllables
- 1st type (close type)
a, e, i, y, o, u, i
- 2nd type (open type)
- 3d type
a+r /a:/; o+r /o:/; u, e, y, i + r /ǝ:/
- 4th type
are /eǝ/; ire, yre /aIǝ/; ere /Iǝ/; ure /uǝ/, /juǝ/ Paris, compare, desire; pure, sure
The digraph[ 
] a pair of letters used to write one phoneme.
| Group 1 - pronounced as diphthongs | Group 2 - as diphthongs/monophthongs | Group 3 -one of the 2 letters is pronounced |
| ei oi oy ey /eI/ | oo(at the end of a w) too oo+ cons. (except k) soon oo + k /u/ book au/o:/ August ou/au/ out | ai /eI/ maid ay/eI/ day oa/ǝu/ oak ee/i:/ see ea/i:/ mean eu/ju:/ neutral |
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