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Title: Diphthongs in English


1
English Diphthongs
  • Spanish similarities and differences.

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English and Spanish Vowels.
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Julio Torrecillas, 2003
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Vowels
  • Vowels are determined by changes in position of
    the lips, tongue and palate.
  • These changes can be very slight and difficult to
    detect.
  • In English, vowels can also glide into (move
    quietly) one another to form diphthongs and even
    tripthongs.

4
Diphthongs Centring
  • Diphthongs are those sounds that consist of a
    movement or glide from one vowel to another.
  • The first part of a diphthong is always longer
    and stronger than the second part

5
Diphthongs Closing
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/ei/
Spelling
  • The sound /ei/ is usually written with the
    letters
  • "A" baby, face, late, page, place, same, take.
    (The final "e" indicates that "a" is pronounced
    /ei/. without this final "e" the pronunciation
    would be a vowel, e.g.
  • Sam sæm, bath ba?
  • "AY" day, say, stay, today, way.
  • "Al" rain Spain, train, wait.
  • "EA" great weight steak,
  • Other spellings grey, they, break, eight.

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Transcribe the following words.
Paper Sail Radio James Railway Station Newspaper date
peip? seil reidi?u ?eimz reilwei stei?n njuspeip? deit.
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/ou/ /??/
  • This has two sounds /?/ and /u/ or /?/. The
    second element of the diphthong is very short and
    the first one is longer than /e/.

The lips at the beginning are in a neutral
position and then gradually rounded as the tongue
rises to make /u/.
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Spelling
  • The sound /??/ is usually written with the
    letters
  • - o go, hello, no, old, only, hotel.
  • - o...e home, hole, nose, those.
  • - oa boat, coat, road, Joan.
  • -ow know, low, narrow, show, slow, thro
  • -ou though, soul, shoulder.
  • Some words
  • Boat Joan, Joness hotel hello.

10
/ai/
  • This has two sounds /a/ and then add /i/, this
    is a short sound. Most students have little or
    no difficulties with this sound.

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Spelling.
  • The sound /ai/ is usually written with the
    letters i or y.

i, y child, find, five, smile, try, by, fly,
right, sky, ... - igh high, light, night, right,
bright. -ye eye, goodbye. - Other spellings
lie, buy,
12
Transcription.
pai kait, klaimi? raidi? rais,
brait ais krim ais skeiti?
gudnait, fraidi
  • Pie
  • kite
  • climbing
  • riding
  • Rice
  • bright
  • ice-cream
  • ice-skating
  • goodnight
  • Friday

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/a?/
  • The first sound is, in some way, similar to /æ/,
    then add /u/ this second sound is very short.

There is an /au/ diphthong in Spanish but it is
pronounced higher and it is much more tense than
the English equivalent.
14
Spelling
  • The sound /au/ is written with the letters
  • ou about, mouth, count, round, out, round.
  • ow cow, crowd, flower, down, now, town, brown.

15
Transcription
fla??z maus, mais, ?a?znd ka?z,
tra?z?z.
  • Flowers
  • Mouse
  • mice
  • thousand
  • cows
  • trousers

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/??/
  • The two sounds in this diphthong are /?/ even
    pronounced longer, then /i/, being even shorter.
    There are few words for practice of this sound at
    beginner level.

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The sound /?i/ is written with the letters-oi
noise, point, voice, ...-oy boy, toy, employ,
...
Spelling
18
Centring Diphthongs
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Centring Diphthongs
  • /??/
  • In this diphthong both elements are short, but
    the accent falls on the first one.
  • When this diphthong is followed by an r, this
    consonant is not pronounced except when the
    following syllable or word begins with a vowel,
    in this case a linking r can be pronounced.
  • E.g. fearing fi?ri?

20
Spelling
  • -ea dear, hear, ear, near.
  • -er,eer deer, beer, here.
  • Other spellings idea, real, museum.

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/e?//e?/
  • The first sound is an /e/ but you have to make it
    a little longer, then add /?/. Most students
    produce the -er ending with the r always
    pronounced.
  • Theres a book on the table.
  • Its there.

22
Spelling
  • -are share, scare, mare, care.
  • -air chair, pair, air, ...
  • - ear bear, tear
  • -ere where, there.
  • Other spellings their, theyre, wear, Mary.

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Transcription
  • Beer
  • near
  • Here
  • chair
  • Where
  • airport
  • square

bi? ni? hi? ?e? we? e?p?t skwe?
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/o?/
  • The diphthong /o?/ is normally replaced by a /?/
    by RP speakers, that is why I dont think it is
    important but although we dont care about its
    production you should understand it.
  • Spelling
  • -oar, ore, our, oor boar, for, soar, your, pour,
    more, door, ...

25
/??/
  • The first element is a /u/ and the second one is
    a /?/.It is often pronounced /?/ or /?/ Look at
    the following examples
  • poor p?? p?? p?
  • sure ??? ??? ??
  • Spellings -ou, ure, oor tour, pure, moor

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Triphthongs
  • Some people also speak of triphthongs ai?,
    ei?, au?, ?u?, oi?
  • Fire, flower, shower, player, theyre, lower,
    enjoyable in?oi?bl.

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