Phonematic system of the English and Ukrainian languages differ also in the articulation of vowel phonemes within the same group.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 653.

The division of vowel phonemes into different groups according to the position of the tongue is not the same in the English and Ukrainian languages.

According to the stability of the articulation and quality, English vowel phonemes are divided into monophthongs, diphthongs and diphthongoids. All the Ukrainian vowel phonemes are monophthongs, there are no diphthongs in Ukrainian.

Besides the difference in quality, English vowel phonemes differ from Ukrainian vowel phonemes in length.

The number of phonemes is not the same in the two languages.

The system of English vowel phonemes as compared with the system of Ukrainian and Russian vowel phonemes.

The system of English and Ukrainian vowel phonemes differ in many points.

There are 20 vowel phonemes in the English language. 10 of them are monophthongs, 8 diphthongs and 2 diphthongoids.

There are only 6 vowel phonemes in the Ukrainian language: [I], [И], [Е], [А], [О], [У].

In the English language there are long and short vowel phonemes while in Ukrainian long vowel phonemes do not exist.

In the English language there are front, back and mixed vowel phonemes. In Ukrainian there are no mixed vowel phonemes. The English front and back vowel groups include a considerable greater number of phonemes t5han those of the Ukrainian language.

Thus, the English front vowel phonemes [i], [i:], [e]. are closer and more front than the corresponding Ukrainian [I], [И], [Е].

The English back vowel phonemes [o], [u] are more retracted than the Ukrainian back vowel phonemes [О], [У].