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Introduction to Phonemic Symbol
A. Objectives
* To know Phonemic Symbols of English.
* To understand Consonants and Vowels.
B. Content
In English words are not pronounced as they are written.
* Some letters have more than one sound
Chemistry, Church, Chaimpaign
+ Sometimes letters are not pronounced at all.
Comb, Tsunami, Listen
‘+ Same sound is represented by different letters.
Kite, Cat
Phoneme
A Phoneme is a single ‘unit’ of sound that has meaning in any language.
English has 26 Alphabets
Sounds are 44
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a set of symbols showing
sounds of a language.
Out of 44 sounds
There are 20 vowels
(12 pure vowels/monopthongs and 08 dipthongs)
And 24 consonants Vowels
« Front vowels
i: eat, see, machine
1 kit, bid, hymn
e set, dress, bed
w cat, trap, bad
* Central Vowels
3
about, earth, common
A cut, blood, mud
3: girl, nurse, stir
° Back vowels
a:
£ayo
car, start, father
odd, wash, cot
thought, war, north
foot, good, put
thank you, situation, cool
e Dipthongs
el
al
-
1a
eo
ve
30
au
face, day, break
price, high, fight
choice, boy, moist
ear, here, weary
air, hair, square
poor, cure, tourist
goal, shoe, no
mouth, found, count Let us study Consonants first.
p- pen, copy, happen
b- back, job, baby
t- tea, tight, button
d- day, ladder, odd
ke key, clock, school
e- get, giggle, ghost
Yf- church, match, nature
I dg- judge, age, soldier
f- fat, rough, photo
1 v- view, heavy, move
@- thing, author, path
6- this, other, smooth
s- soon, cease, sister
2- zero, music, roses
J- ship, sure, national
3- pleasure, vision, revision
h- hot, whole, ahead
m- more, hammer, sum
n- nice, know, funny
n- ring, anger, thanks
|- light, valley, feel
r- right, wrong, sorry
j- yet, use, beauty
w- wet, one, when
