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2. IPA vowel chart with audio - Wikipedia

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   This chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart. [1] The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

3. Silent e - Wikipedia

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   A silent e , in association with the Latin alphabet's five vowel characters, is one of the ways by which some of these vowel sounds are represented in English orthography. A silent e in association with the other vowels may convert a short vowel sound to a long vowel

4. English phonology - Wikipedia

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   The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

5. Phonics - Wikipedia

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   Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

6. Vowel diagram - Wikipedia

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   In the vowel diagram, convenient reference points are provided for specifying tongue position. The position of the highest point of the arch of the tongue is considered to be the point of articulation of the vowel. The vertical dimension of the vowel diagram is known as vowel height, which includes high, central (mid), or low vowels.

7. Old English phonology - Wikipedia

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   Three vowel shifts produced diphthongs: breaking, back mutation, and palatal diphthongization. Breaking caused Anglo-Frisian short *æ, *e, *i to develop into the short diphthongs ea, eo, io before /x, w/ or a consonant cluster beginning with /r, l/. Anglo-Frisian long *ǣ, *ī developed into the diphthongs ēa and īo before /x/: