LETRS Unit 2 Session 5 with Complete Solutions

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LETRS Unit 2 Session 5 with Complete Solutions diphthong ✔✔Single vowel phonemes that glide in the middle. The mouth position shifts during the production of the phoneme. /oi/ in spoil /ou/ in ... couch /ī/ in light Schwa ✔✔Means empty in Hebrew. It is the vowel in an unaccented syllable such as the last syllable in wagon. Difference between long and short vowels ✔✔Long (tense) and short (lax) are arbitrary. They have little to do with the time it takes to say a vowel. They are to do with the muscle tension in jaw. Long = beet, bait, boat, boot, beauty, bite. Short = bit, bet, bat, pot, but, bought, book. Vowels ✔✔A set of 15 phonemes in English (not including r-controlled combinations or schwa). It is an open phoneme that is in every syllable. They can be classified by tongue position and height (e.g. front or low, mid or back, round) R-controlled vowels ✔✔When a letter is followed by an /r/ it's sound usually changes. It may become totally unified as one phoneme or kept slightly separated. [Show More]

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