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Vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Long vowels are written in the IPA with a triangular colon, which has two equilateral triangles pointing at each other in place of dots ([iː]). Vowels are especially important to the structures of words in languages that have very few consonants (like Polynesian languages such as Maori and Hawaiian), and in languages whose inventory of vowels is larger than its inventory of consonants. Furthermore, in English some vowel sounds are represented by combinations of vowel letters, such as the ea in beat or by a vowel letter and an approximant letter, as the ow in how, or the er in her. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vowel   (3298 words)

Vowel length - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In Baltic-Finnic languages, such as Finnish, vowel length is sometimes better analyzed as a "diphthong" of two identical vowels, since the etymology and morphology is the same as for dipthongs, and not a feature of the vowel itself. Vowel length can also be signified by a half-colon (a colon with only the top dot), meaning half-long, and a double colon, meaning twice as long as a regular vowel. In some cases, long vowels /eː/ and /oː/ are indicated by appending hiragana え (e) and お (o) respectively, for example in ee ja nai ka and Hiroo, a place in Tokyo. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_vowel   (1894 words)

Vowel length -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Traditionally, the vowels (as in bait beet bite boat beauty) are said to be the "long" counterparts of the vowels (as in bat bet bit bot put) which are said to be "short". Vowel doubling, used consistently in (The official language of Estonia; belongs to the Baltic-Finnic family of languages) Estonian, (The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages) Finnish, and occasionally in (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch, (A person of German nationality) German. In rare cases, long vowels /e:/ and /o:/ are indicated by appending hiraganas え; (e) and お (o) respectively. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vo/vowel_length.htm   (1134 words)

Vowel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract, in contrast to consonants, which are characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract. Vowels usually form the peak or nucleus of a syllable, whereas consonants form the onset and coda. Vowels are de-voiced in whispered speech, and in Japanese, vowels that are low pitched and between voiceless consonants are de-voiced. www.wikiverse.org /vowel   (1772 words)

Wells, Formants of Pure Vowels: relative amplitude The end of the vowel was taken as the point where the vertical striations representing the glottal pulses ceased, being interrupted by the contact of the tongue with the alveolar ridge for the articulation of /d/. The average absolute durations of short vowels, long vowels, and all vowels pooled, together with the ratios of long vowel average to short vowel average, are shown for each speaker in Table 6. The duration ratio of a given speaker's average for long vowels to his average for short vowels was found to range between 1.4 to one and 2.7 to one, with a mean of 1.9 to one. www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/wells/formants/duration-uni.htm   (1862 words)

Department of Phonetics - Vowel Charts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Data from Deterding 1997, where the vowels were obtained from a digital speech database consisting of the speech of five male speakers; approximately 10 occurrences per vowel type. Vowel length is not shown in the figure. The long /a:/ of Sweden Swedish is very back in comparison to Finland Swedish (and is often represented with the symbol expressing roundedness, i.e., it is close to the vowel /o:/; cf. www.helsinki.fi /hum/hyfl/projektit/vokaalikartat_eng.html   (452 words)

The Americas Vowel pairs occur as diphthongs, two vowels that create a single new vowel sound that is a glide between the two vowels, and as digraphs, vowels that are written twice, but of which only one vowel sound is heard that is not a new sound. Vowels followed by an "r" usually have a mid-range sound between long and short. The letter "y" sometimes functions as a long vowel sound "i" and is an irregularity of English spelling. www.lewismicropublishing.com /Publications/English/Vowels.htm   (855 words)

Stevenson Learning Skills | Food For Thought We teach words with long vowel sounds first because author Nancy Stevenson, during her long years teaching reading disabled students and young beginners, found that long vowels were easier for her students to discriminate, isolate, retrieve and blend. Nancy thinks that long vowel sounds may be easier to remember for the same reason that they seem easier to isolate - their presence in our daily conversations. By using long vowel sounds, Nancy was able to create special, extra blending exercises in which the presence of a schwa on the consonant was not a problem. www.stevensonsemple.com /newsletter_articles/longshortw.htm   (2041 words)

Long and Short Vowels Since each word or syllable must have a vowel, learning to recognize the vowel letters, the vowel sounds, and the rules that make the sounds long or short, needs to be introduced very early in a reading program. Using the LS Vowel Rule indicator, analysis indicates that 85% of the words in the long vowel sound family adhere to the two vowels is long rule. Using the breakfast food analogy, it is easy for students to remember pancakes (one vowel = cook one side at a time) as short vowel sounds and waffles (two vowels = cook two sides at a time) as long vowel sounds. www.mybreakfastreadingprogram.com /vowels.htm   (811 words)

D. W. Cummings | Elements and Procedures | Student's Edition Chapter 9 | A site for spellers, teachers of spelling and ... Write a sentence that describes the effect of silent final <e> on the preceding vowels in words that end <le>: In words that end <le> the silent final <e> will mark the preceding vowel as long if there is only one consonant between the vowel and the <le> but not if there are two consonants. Front vowels, usually spelled <e>, <i>, or <y>, tended to urge the pronunciation of the preceding consonant more towards the front of the mouth, so that [g] developed into [j]. If there is a short vowel preceding the <z>, we add a second <z>, as in fuzz, fizz, and jazz, but if there is a consonant or a long vowel preceding the <z>, we add a silent final <e>, as in bronze, wheeze, and booze. www.dwcummings.com /eandp/chapter9.asp   (3982 words)

Wells, Formants of Pure Vowels: relative amplitude The mid long vowel /3/ is in turn longer than /i/ and /u/; and the open long vowels /A/ and /O/ are longest of all. The only vowel noticeably out of place is /V/, which in spite of its half-open to open articulatory position is nearest in average duration, whether relative or absolute, to the short close vowels /I/ and /U/. The distribution of vowels to the two classes is not quite the same: in particular, /æ/ and /Q/ are short in British, though the corresponding American vowels /æ/ and /A/ are long or indifferent. www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/wells/formants/duration.htm   (1862 words)

Encyclopedia: Long vowel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Several mechanisms for denoting vowel length are used in the Latin alphabet: A vowel with a macron indicates a long vowel (kōtsū "traffic"), with macronless vowels being short (kotsu "bone"). Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com). www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Long-vowel   (866 words)

Spelling reform | Antimoon Forum The vowel in "plate", "late" and "bait" is not a long vowel but a diphthong. The vowel in "wide", "fly", "cry" and "light" is not a long vowel either, it's a diphthong. The vowel in "two", "who", "moon" and "boot", on the other hand, is a long vowel but the vowel in "cook", "should", "would" and "wood" is short. www.antimoon.com /forum/2003/3453.htm   (653 words)

Terminology/FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) This is a deceptively easy question: a long vowel is a vowel that is pronounced for a long period of time, about twice as long as a short vowel. Vowel length ceases to be meaningful (that is, phonemic) in English The vowel trapezoid is a stylized representation of the mouth. alpha.furman.edu /~mmenzer/gvs/terms.htm   (546 words)

activity long vowel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Matching Activity for recognition of long vowel A phoneme by spotting words that rhyme using all the spelling choices. Long Vowels This set of 8 activity cards was created to give students recognition and reinforcement of the long vowel sounds while having the fun Countries like Croatia and Slovenia, where the property registry is in the courts and accounts for over half of the case backlog, may consider as a priority reform merging the registry with the cadastre. vowel.1-forless.info /activity-long-vowel   (466 words)

[No title] For loss of vowel length distinctions, I suggested that this reinterpretation occurred by the elimination of a superfluous feature and that this was in accord with markedness tendencies, as well as the general drift in Indo-European (Lloyd, p. Evidence from Latin for the relative markedness of long vowels compared to short ones is that 70.5 percent of all vowels in a sample of 25,000 phonemes were short (from Lloyd, p. However, the confusion of certain long and short vowels and the eventual redundancy of duration in determining contrast led to the elimination of long vowels even before less sonorous geminate consonants were affected. roa.rutgers.edu /files/278-0898/roa-278-holt-3.doc   (3348 words)

Hausa Vowels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Unlike the difference between short and long a, which distinguishes numerous pairs of words in Hausa, there are few pairs of words which are distinguished only by short i vs. long i or by short u vs. The distinction between long and short vowels at the end of a word is subtle, having to do with the way the vowel is cut off. When a long e or o at the end of a word get shortened, for example when a consonant is added resulting in a "closed" syllable, these vowels tend to be pronounced as short a. www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/aflang/Hausa/Pronunciation/vowels.html   (1312 words)

Great Vowel Shift In simplified terms, the effects of the GVS are fairly easy to describe: it raised (and in one case fronted) Middle English long vowels, causing the high long vowels to become diphthongs, as the mid long vowels became high long vowels and so on. Indeed, we might guess that the earlier stage either had (a) just three vowels (spelled ‘i’ ‘e’ and ‘a’), or else (b) three close pairs of vowels, where each member of a pair was represented in spelling with the same vowel letter. The modern informal terms of "long vowels" and "short vowels" are thus a reflection of an earlier stage of the language where vowel length was a distinctive feature. asstudents.unco.edu /faculty/tbredehoft/UNCclasses/ENG419/GVS.html   (1727 words)

long vowel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) ...south-east of England and East Anglia retain a long vowel, albeit of a slightly different nature to the old-fashioned RP vowel in the same... Once you know your short vowel sounds really well, there are all sorts of neat spelling tricks you can learn. Yes, Finland: Land of a thousand lakes, land of ungodly long words that have a ratio of 17 consonants to one vowel, and land of opportunity for a young forward... vowel.1-forless.info /long-vowel   (497 words)

long vowel objectives - A to Z Teacher Stuff Forums The annual goal for the student in reading is to apply word analysis skills to identify and understand umfamiliar words at an accuracy of 85% in 2 of 3 trials. The area i am having trouble finding a short term objective for is long vowels. Step 2: The student will be able to identify the letters that form the long vowel sounds in one syllable words. forums.atozteacherstuff.com /showthread.php?t=4751   (231 words)

Phonics Pad Unit 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Once children can recognize short vowel sounds, learning long vowel sounds is the next step in a sequential phonics program. Reading long vowel words is more challenging because there are many ways to spell each long vowel sound. For example, the words safe, sail, and say all contain the long a sound, but use different spelling patterns for the long vowel sound. www.edin.com /phonicspad/phonicspad_unit4.html   (213 words)

Long Vowel Beanstalks Give each group a long vowel sound to listen for in the story. Have the students select one long vowel word from each category (long a, long e, long i, long o, long u) and write it on a leaf. Extend the lesson by having the students to think about the five long vowel sounds that were previously taught. www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=15552   (638 words)

A Contrastive Analysis of Hindi and Malayalam The central vowels in Malaylam are /∂, a, a: /. Nasalization of vowel is a peculiarity of Hindi vowels. These vowel clusters in pronunciation may be replaced with y or v, but in standard writing system they are retained as sequence of vowels only. www.languageinindia.com /sep2002/chap2.html   (4776 words)

Second Grade Literacy In the short-vowel sounds section, students are prompted to choose the vowel that corresponds with the word. In the long-vowel sounds sections, students are prompted to choose the vowel that corresponds with the word. Vowel Practice - drag the correct vowel into the word to spell it correctly hillside.needham.k12.ma.us /cyberventues/literacy/grade_2_literacy/2_literacy.htm   (403 words)

Teacher's Guide Repeat the vowel sounds in each pair and identify them as having a short or long vowel sound. Help students recognize that all three word choices on a page have the same long vowel sound, but that the words have different spelling patterns (e.g., silent e at the end of space and ai in the middle of rain and snails). Have the groups search for objects in the classroom whose names contain the long vowel sound and record their finding on a sheet of paper. teacher.scholastic.com /clifford1/lesson4.htm   (841 words)

abcteach Printable Worksheet: Spiders: Long Vowel i   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The word spider has a long i vowel sound. Some long i words are five, lie, tie. Mark yes if they have a long i sound. www.abcteach.com /Spiders/voweli.htm   (45 words)

Reading and spelling long vowel sounds They see the suit, hear the vowel sound, and identify the spelling pattern with its family as they physically play the card. Four suits at a time are used (as in ordinary playing cards), and one suit at a time is changed once success has been achieved on it. 21 Vowel digraph suits sets of three, with one rhyming pair and one non-rhyming pair for each medial vowel digraph. www.crossboweducation.com /long_vowel_sounds.htm   (509 words)

Spelling reform | Antimoon Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Their vowel chart leaves a bit to be desired. But the main problem is that they have hardly enough vowels. These are their "long vowels" (except for the "R vowel sounds"). www.antimoon.com /forum/2003/3358.htm   (1720 words)

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