Education for oki University of Departmen of Anbar HB English College of il, First Stage Huminties ater pi Morning Studies Phonetics English simple vowels Student:Yasser Abd sachit Prof. Dr. Muslih sh. AhmedEnglish simple vowels Vowels :are made by voiced air passing through different mouth shapes The differences in the shape of the mouth are caused by different position of the tongue and of the lips Simple vowels examples : /i: / in word see /e/ in word get /\/ in word bidA vowel is a particular kind of speech sound made by changing the shape of the upper vocal tract, or the area in the mouth above the tongue. In English it is important to know that there is a difference between a vowel sound and a [letter] in the [alphabet]. In English there are five vowel letters in the alphabet. The sounds of English are written with letters in the English alphabet, as either vowels or consonants. All English words are written with vowel letters in them. These letters are vowels in English: A, E, |, O, U, and sometimes Y. It is said that Y is "sometimes" a vowel, because the letter Y represents both vowel and consonant sounds. In the words cry, sky, fly, my and why, letter Y represents the vowel sound /a1/. In words like myth and synchronize, Y represents the vowel sound /1/. In words like only, quickly, and folly, Y represents the vowel sound /i/.It can also be a consonant sound called a glide as in the beginning of these words: yellow, yacht, yam, yesterday. Y is a consonant about 2.5% of the time, and a vowel about 97.5% of the time.[1] The letter W can sometimes be the second part of a vowel sound as in words like such as cow, bow, or how. In these words the vowel has the sound of /au/. The letter W can be used as a consonant sound at the beginning of in the words when, where, wet. In some in some languages, like Welsh, the letter W represents the vowel sound /2/, like cwm (a kind of valley). In written English the six vowel letters are used to represent the 13-15 vowel sounds (depending on the variety) in English.[2] This means there are many more vowel sounds than letters in the English alphabet, and the English spelling systems doesn t always help us figure out what the English sounds are. This can be confusing.