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The study of sounds in a language or languages. When teaching new language, teachers focus on teaching sounds and on other phonological areas such as stress and intonation.
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The smallest sound unit which can make a difference to meaning e.g. /p/ in pan, /b/ in ban.
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The study of sounds in a language or languages. When teaching new language, teachers focus on teaching sounds and on other phonological areas such as stress and intonation.
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The smallest sound unit which can make a difference to meaning e.g. /p/ in pan, /b/ in ban.
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is about which syllable of a word is pronounced louder and longer - e.g. umBRELLa /ʌmˈbrelə/.
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is about the way some words in a sentence are stressed and some are unstressed. The stressed words are usually the information-carrying words or content words such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
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The way the level of a speaker's voice changes to show meaning such as how they feel about something; e.g. the level of your voice when you are angry is different from the level of your voice when you are pleased. ____________ can be rising or falling or both.
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A poster or diagram of the phonemic symbols arranged in a particular order.
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It means writing words using phonemic symbols, e.g. writing doctor as /dÉ’ktÉ™/. This is done in dictionaries to show pronunciation.
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written symbols that represent phonemes.
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1. A sound in which the air is not blocked by the tongue, lips, teeth etc., e.g. /i:/ (eat), /ə/ (about), /e/ (egg), /ʌ/ (fun). Movement or vibration is felt in the throat because the voice is used.
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__________ are vowel sounds. They are a combination of two single vowel sounds said one after the other in the same syllable to produce a new sound; e.g. /aɪ/ as in 'my' is pronounced by saying /æ/ and /ɪ/ together. There are eight diphthongs in English.
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1. A sound in which the air is partly blocked by the lips, tongue, teeth etc., e.g. /θ/ in 'thing', /b/ in 'boy'.
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To produce a ___________, the voice is used, e.g. /b/ in bad, /d/ in dentist. Movement or vibration can be felt in the throat. Vowels in English are voiced.
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To produce an ___________________, no voice is used, e.g. /p/ in pad, /t/ in tomorrow. No movement or vibration can be felt in the throat.
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A part of a word that usually contains a vowel sound, e.g. pen = one ________; teacher = two ________; umbrella = three __________
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Pronouncing part of a word (syllable) or part of a sentence louder and longer than other parts, e.g. VEGetable, I LOVE baNAnas.
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The /ə/ sound is called the __________. It is a feature of many weak forms, e.g. /kən/ in I can play tennis.
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stress on a syllable or word in a sentence which is less strong than the primary (main) stress, e.g.
