{"id":1186,"date":"2020-03-23T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/?page_id=1186"},"modified":"2020-03-31T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T07:20:13","slug":"2-1-english-vowels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/2-1-english-vowels\/","title":{"rendered":"2.1. English Vowels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1186\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1186-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1186-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1186-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1186-0-0-0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><b>2.1.1. What is vowel?<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1186-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1186-0-0-1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A sound that is pronounced with opened mouth, no contact between the tongue and the top of the mouth or teeth and no obstruction to the flow of air. We can use five letters of English represent the vowel sound:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>a, e, i, o, u<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>20 vowels in total:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7 short vowels: \/\u026a\/ \/\u028a\/ \/\u0259\/ \/e\/ \/\u0252\/ \/\u028c\/ \/\u00e6\/<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 long vowels: \/i\u02d0\/ \/u\u02d0\/ \/\u0251\u02d0\/ \/\u0254\u02d0\/ \/\u025c\u02d0\/<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8 diphthongs: \/e\u026a\/ \/a\u026a\/\/\u0254\u026a\/ \/\u0259\u028a\/ \/a\u028a\/ \/\u026a\u0259\/ \/e\u0259\/ \/\u028a\u0259\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1186-0-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1186-0-0-2\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><b>2.1.2. Classification of vowels<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1186-0-0-3\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"3\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1186-0-0-3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vowels are divided into different categories based on<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Length of the sound<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Position of the tongue<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shape of the lips<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>1. Length of the sound<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long (tense) vowels<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Short (lax) vowels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>2. Position of the tongue<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">close (high) or open (low)\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The distance between the tongue and the top of the mouth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">front or back\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The part of the tongue that is raised<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>3. Shape of the lips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rounded ( e.g. \/\u028a\/)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neutral (e.g. \/\u0259\/)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spread (e.g. \/i\u02d0\/)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Figure 2. 1<\/span><\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Praat2.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1176\" src=\"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Praat2.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1186-0-0-4\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"4\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1186-0-0-4\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/chapter-2-acoustic-analysis-of-vowels\/\">Back to Chapter 2<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/our-praat-manual\/\">Back to Praat Manual<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Hits: 359693<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.1.1. What is vowel? A sound that is pronounced with opened mouth, no contact between the tongue and the top of the mouth or teeth and no obstruction to the flow of air. We can use five letters of English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1186\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpus.eduhk.hk\/english_pronunciation\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}