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The conventional teaching is that the vowels are AEIOU and sometimes Y.Y is a consonant in Yet and Yoghurt. It is a vowel in City and Candy. W is a consonant in Woman and Wine.W is part of a diphthong in words likePAWN, FAWN, FOWL, FEW My ESL books based on phonics study teach the short vowel...

In the '60s we used a grammar booked called Hooked on Phonics . However, some of the other students did check it out for themselves... I know because their parents eventually mentioned their research to me.Too bad many educators feel the need to dumb things down.Remember- to almost every...

Hi Kooyeen, You're way more into phonics than I am, though as a choral conductor I'm always screeming at singers to sustain the vowel portions of the words, since the consonants (generally) cannot be sung. I'm not really going to address your question. I just wanted to caution...

Hi, As Kyoeen says, the difference is that /p/ is voiceless whereas /b/ is voiced. Both are made with the two lips. It is your vocal folds that vibrate, not your "throat", when you produce voiced sounds, and in English the voiced sounds often have devoiced allophonic variants in which case the...

Yeah Anita, now I've seen where it is! Thx CalifJim wrote: -- What's a bigamist? -- A lot of fog. Hahahaaa Bot / BopBod / Bob The unvoiced consonants have the effect of clipping the vowel sound before the mouth forms the final consonant; the voiced consonants allow voicing to...

I don't think it's called intonation. It's allophonic vowel length: vowel phonemes are realized as longer vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. This is found in all dialects of American English. Some American dialects have some phonemic vowel distinctions...