Vowels and vowel combinations
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 391.
Open and closed syllables
English Vowel Sounds
A vowel letter can represent different vowel sounds: hat [hat], hate [heit], all [o:l], art [a:rt], any [`eni].
(Одна гласная буква может передавать разные гласные звуки: hat [hat], hate [heit], all [o:l], art [a:rt], any [`eni].)
The same vowel sound can be represented by different vowel letters: [ei] they, weigh, may, cake, steak, rain.
(Один и тот же гласный звук может быть представлен разными гласными буквами: [ei] they, weigh, may, cake, steak, rain.)
(Открытые и закрытые слоги)
Open syllable: Kate [keit], Pete [pi:t], note [nout], site [sait], cute [kyu:t].
Closed syllable: cat [kat], pet [pet], not [not], sit [sit], cut [the neutral sound].
The vowels A, E, I, O, U, Y alone, in combination with each other or with R, W represent different vowel sounds. The chart below lists the vowel sounds according to the American variant of pronunciation.
(Гласные A, E, I, O, U, Y по отдельности, в комбинации друг с другом или с R, W передают различные гласные звуки. В таблице ниже указаны гласные звуки согласно американскому варианту произношения.)
| Sound | Letters | Examples | Notes |
| [i:] | e, ee ea ie, ei | be, eve, see, meet, sleep, meal, read, leave, sea, team, field, believe, receive | been [i]; bread, deaf [e]; great, break [ei]; friend [e] |
| [i] | i y | it, kiss, tip, pick, dinner, system, busy, pity, sunny | machine, ski, liter, pizza [i:] |
| [e] | e ea | let, tell, press, send, end, bread, dead, weather, leather | meter [i:] |
| [ei] | a ai, ay ei, ey ea | late, make, race, able, stable, aim, wait, play, say, day, eight, weight, they, hey, break, great, steak | said, says [e]; height, eye [ai] |
| [æ] / [a] | a | cat, apple, land, travel, mad; AmE: last, class, dance, castle, half | |
| [yu:] | u ew eu ue, ui | use, duty, music, cute, huge, tune, few, dew, mew, new, euphemism, feud, neutral, hue, due, sue, suit | |
| [u:] | u o, oo ew ue, ui ou | rude, Lucy, June, do, move, room, tool, crew, chew, flew, jewel, blue, true, fruit, juice, group, through, route; AmE: duty, new, sue, student | guide, quite [ai]; build [i] |
| [u] | oo u ou | look, book, foot, good, put, push, pull, full, sugar, would, could, should | |
| [o:] | or o aw, au -ought al, wa- | more, order, cord, port, long, gone, cost, coffee, law, saw, pause, because, bought, thought, caught, hall, always, water, war, want | work, word, worm [әr] / [er] |
| [o] | o | not, rock, model, bottle, copy | |
| [ou] | o oa, ow | go, note, open, old, most, road, boat, low, own, bowl | |
| [oi] | oi, oy | oil, voice, noise, boy, toy | |
| [a:] | ar a | army, car, party, garden, park, father, calm, palm, drama; BrE: last, class, dance, castle, half | war, warm, ward [o:] |
| [au] | ou ow | out, about, house, mouse, now, brown, cow, owl, powder | |
| [ai] | i, ie y, uy | ice, find, smile, tie, lie, die, my, style, apply, buy, guy | |
| neutral sound [ә] | u, o ou a, e o, i | gun, cut, son, money, love, tough, enough, rough, about, brutal, taken, violent, memory, reason, family | |
| [әr] / [er] | er, ur, ir or, ar -ear | serve, herb, burn, hurt, girl, sir, work, word, doctor, dollar, heard, earn, earnest, earth | heart, hearth [a:] |
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