Thank you for watching this Seattle Learning Academy video lesson.ĮXIT: ( short a, short e, short i, short o, short u) cat, bed, sit, top, sun.“It is about finding ourselves caught in the cycle of our own emotions, yet still choosing to move forward,” the Selos act shares in a collective statement. Now that you know what the five short vowel sounds are, and their common phonetic pattern, it's worth studying each sound individually. Common phonetic patterns and non-phonetic words are covered in each sound's individual video lesson. There are also words that aren't pronounced in a way that we'd expect based on their spelling. While common phonetic patterns like consonant-vowel-consonant (as in the word 'hat') and vowel-consonant-e (as in the word 'hate') and can help learners understand the pronunciation of English words, individual spelling patterns often exist for each sound. The change in pronunciation from the word 'hat' to the word 'hate' is caused by the addition of the letter 'e.' For instance, if I take the word 'hat' h-a-t, and add the letter e I'll get the word 'hate' instead. If there's only one consonant after the vowel, and that consonant is followed by the letter 'e,' the formula changes, and we can expect a long vowel sound instead. If I take the 'c' off of the word 'cat,' I get the word 'at,' still pronounced with a short vowel sound. If a word begins with a vowel letter that's followed by one or more consonants, we can still expect a short vowel sound pronunciation. In the word 'cat,' c-a-t, the vowel letter a is between two consonants, the 'c' and the 't.' It isn't surprising, then, that the word 'cat' is pronounced with a /æ/ sound ( /æ/). When a vowel occurs alone between two consonants we can expect a short vowel sound. Our short vowel key words follow the consonant-vowel-consonant phonetic pattern. It's the relationship between a word's spelling and its pronunciation. Phonetics is the connection between letters and sounds. All 5 of our short vowel key words- cat, bed, sit, top, and sun-follow the most common phonetic pattern for short vowel sounds. The five words I just used as examples are key words for the short vowel sounds. We begin the study of vowel sound pronunciation by using key words. These are just names historically given to these sounds. Today, we're going to talk about the 5 short vowel sounds and the most common spelling pattern of those sounds.īefore we begin, let me clarify that short vowel sounds aren't said for less time than long vowel sounds, though it certainly would be convenient if that were the case. We include the symbols because that's what pronunciation dictionaries use, and those specialized dictionaries can be very helpful when talking about pronunciation. So we use the sound's name, long e, short i, short e, and short u, and not just the sound itself ( long e, short i, short e, short u). For instance, ( long e) and ( short i)-that was the long e sound and the short i sound-or ( short e) and ( short u)-the short e and short u sound-are easily confused. We're including the names for sounds because non-native English speakers often can't hear the difference between sounds. When talking about the sounds of English, I'll use a name (such as long a or short a), and the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol. To make the 15 vowel sounds easier to learn, we break them into the categories of Those 5 letters ( a, e, i, o, and u-plus the letters w, y, and gh) are used in the spelling of the 15 vowel sounds of English. Of the 26 letters of the alphabet, 5 letters- a, e, i, o, and u-are considered vowels. Welcome to Seattle Learning Academy's video pronunciation series.
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