Vowel length Essays

  • Vowels Mispronunciation Among Arab ESL Learners

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    difficulty in pronouncing English vowels. The vowel quantity and the vowel quality are the two phonetic parameters through which vowels are described. The vowel quantity refers to the duration of the phonetic segment that is symptomatic of phonetic identity. On the other hand, the vowel quality means the knowing the precise way of articulating a vowel, which includes the shape of lips, position of the tongue in the vocal tract or the nasalization of vowels. Every vowel has its own pattern of speaking

  • Essay On Vietnamese Phonology

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    experience more pronunciation such as “/tʰ/”, which occurs when there is an exhale of air that is followed by the words release. The Vietnamese language is also made up of 72 vowels. Technically, there are 12 vowels in the Vietnamese language. However, the language consists of six tones which therefore leads to a total of 72 distinct vowels. (Thompson 2013). In the Vietnamese language, there are six different tones that a word may have. The tones may either be high rising, low falling or low rising. There

  • A Comparison of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold and Prayer Before Brith by Louis MacNeice

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    A Comparison of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold and Prayer Before Brith by Louis MacNeice 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold, written in 1867, and 'Prayer Before Birth' written in 1951 by Louis MacNeice share many similarities despite being written nearly on hundred years apart from each other. This essay will explore the issues and ideas that both poems share, in addition to drawing attention to some of the key differences. 'Dover Beach' is about the thoughts of a man on his honeymoon, who

  • contrastive analysis

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    make a comparison of two different languages, and to show how the structure of one can make the learning process of the other much easier or harder. For instance, the phonemic distinction of the vowel length of German and English are the same, making it easier to maintain the distinction in vowel length when speaking English. On the other hand, there are other transfers that will interfere with the learning process. Before going into the phonemes and how it can differ or be the same from one language

  • Delivery Stress In Prosody, Rhythm And Intonation

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    Stress in a linguistics is basically the force put on a word or language unit in speech. The strain in language depends upon the loudness and vowel length. The strain and accent area unit the synonyms to every alternative in English language. If we tend to take the instance of a word “examine”. The strain is applied on the second syllable (language unit) whereas this word contains 3 syllables. If we tend to offer stress on first or third syllable the accent are going to be modified as a result of

  • Christian Bök - Inviting Us to Rethink how Language Works

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    UbuWeb Sound Poetry. Available http://www.ubu.com/sound/bok.html, 2000. Accessed: November 16, 2003. Carmine, Starnino. “Vowel Movements: Pointless Toil and Empty Productivity.” Books in Canada 31, 4 (Jun/Jul 2002): 29. Crawley, Devin. “[Eunoia].” Quill & Quire 67, 10 (October 2001): 40. Crawley, Devin. “The book of Bok: author’s new poetry title uses just one vowel per chapter [Eunoia].” Quill & Quire 67, 10 (October 2001): 9. Dykk, Lloyd. “Are we having fun yet? Series: 2002: I Resolve…”

  • Speech Sounds

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    form bands known as formants. Initial attempts to understand speech perception assumed that each phoneme we perceive would have an invariant formant pattern. While it was recognised that an extended, steady state formant resulted in perception of vowel sounds while formant transitions resulted in perception of consonants, this was the limit to the pursuit of invariant pattern identification. It was discovered that phonemes are not produced one after the other, but are instead produced in parallel

  • You Tube: A Video-Sharing Website

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    Introduction February 2005 was an important date in the cyberspace when three former PayPal staff decided to leave the company and launch YouTube, a video-sharing website which offers services of uploading, watching and sharing users’ videos without any charge. Loads of new registered users soon made the site well-known; so much that it drew the attention of Google. The Internet giant then bought the website in November 2006, and the site now runs as a Google’s subsidiary. Being an eye-catching medium

  • Modern English: The Expread Of The English Language

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    Inconsistencies and irregularities in English have seemingly increased in number throughout the history of the English language. There are multiple reasons why. First, gradual changes in pronunciation, such as the Great Vowel Shift, explain a tremendous number of irregularities. Secondly, there was a major change in the English language during the Norman Conquest that saw English adopt a lot of French spelling conventions. Thus it changed the convention for spelling for

  • Lesson Reflection

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    transitioned into vowel teams and I think she does an extraordinary job teaching vowel teams. For her lesson, she starts off having the vowel team on the smartboard with a picture and the sound the vowel makes. She starts off by spelling the vowel team then she gives us word with the vowel team and then she gives us the sound the vowel team makes. For example, for the vowel team –oi she would say o-i, coin, /oi/ and then she would have the students repeat her. Mrs. Much also taught them the vowel team –oy

  • Language Development In Child Development

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    Child development language is a process by which children come to communicate and understand language during early childhood. This usually occurs from birth up to the age of five. The rate of development is usually fast during this period. However, the pace and age of language development vary greatly among children. Thus, the language development of a child is usually compared with norms rather than with other individual children. It is scientifically proven that development of girls language is

  • Phonological Variations In Spanish-Influenced English

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    Understanding these differences is important to the speech-language pathologist in order to realize why some English sounds are more difficult for the Spanish speaker to produce than others (Gorman & Kester, 2001). Vowel Systems Spanish relies on five vowels: /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/. While these vowels are found in English, the English language contains an... ... middle of paper ... ...edge of the language and rules will only benefit one’s ability to diagnose and treat speech and language disorders

  • English as a Second Language in China

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    In contemporary society, English, which is studied as the second language, has become an international language. China is a typical example showing the popularity of English around the world. More specifically, Chinese students have even been studying English in their primary school. Because of different cultures, histories, and religious, the Chinese and English languages have a multitude of dissimilarities. Chinese students have enormous trouble in learning English. An ESL instructor, to be successful

  • Hands-on and Kinesthetic Activities for Teaching Phonological Awareness

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    both with students in primary grades. The study contained 1 object box and 5 environmental print card games. The environmental game cards consisted of the Stepping Stone Game, Syllabication Object box, Vowel-Change Word Family, The Four-Letter Long Vowel Silent-e Words, and Sorting Words by Vowel Sound Game. This article I chose to write about was written by Audrey C. Rule, Jolene Dockstader, and Roger A. Stewart. The article provided 3 table graphs, 5 examples of Phonics Games, and 6 pages of the

  • The Chinese Language

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    English, they appear to be closer to the English phonemes /b/, /d/, and /g/. This is because the time that it takes after releasing air and before the next vowel sound is much shorter that an English native speaker. Some languages use long and short vowels to change the semantics of a word. The Chinese language does not use long and short vowels in this way (Yin and Zhang, 2009). The sound /i/ is present in Chinese, but the sound can be short or long without changing a word’s meaning. This sound often

  • What will language be like in 500 years?

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    The English language is something that has undergone changes for centuries upon centuries. It has been changed in many various ways, such as the way it is written, the way it is spoken, and how it sounds when verbalized. Language is one of those things that will continue to change and it will grow also, because of the new ideas that evolve. One may be able to make predictions of what the English language will evolve to within the next 500 years. Some may make logical predictions from what is experienced

  • Bob Dog

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    1) How old are you? How might your age affect both what you know and your attitude toward gaining knowledge? Age is a measurement of the time since something is created. I was born sixteen years ago, therefore I am sixteen years old. My age affects what I know because time I have been able to spend gaining experience in the world. My relatively young age makes me more inclined to to actively gain knowledge as the average life expectancy for humans is currently about 79 years in the US and the more

  • Gwendolyn Brooks

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    Gwendolyn Brooks- A Critical Analysis of Her Work Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been most responsive to changes in the black community, particularly in the community’s vision of itself. The first African American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; she was considered one of America’s most distinguished poets well before the age of fifty. Known for her technical artistry, she has succeeded in forms as disparate as Italian terza rima and the blues. She has been praised for her wisdom and

  • Anthem For Doomed Youth Poem Analysis

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    Wilfred Own presents the horror and pity created by war by the use of visual and auditory techniques. These techniques help to magnify the vicious sense of war and clearly describe how the soldiers coped with the barbarity of war. He himself was in the army so we get an idea of how this influences his views; But also how horrific some of the incidents that happened to the soldiers were, as he witnessed many. When we look at the poem ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ we can already see in the title a

  • Japanese Culture Vs American Culture

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    Our planet consists of many different groups and cultures. Cultures across the globe interact differently on basic societal, religious, and political levels. The way that these cultures differ is important to understanding the past, present, and future of our time on Earth. Contrasting cultural language, social interactions, families, and educational institutions all play an impactful role in differentiating one vulture from the other. Japan in particular diverges in those main points to the United