Flashcards on English Orthography: History, Rules, and Pedagogy
English Orthography: History, Rules, and Pedagogy Guide
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English Phonetics
25 cards
Card 1
Question: What is the relationship called between sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes)?
Answer: Sound-letter correspondences (the relationship between phoneme and grapheme).
Card 2
Question: How many vowel sounds are distinguished in the presentation and how are they grouped?
Answer: 12 vowel sounds: 7 short vowels and 5 long vowels.
Card 3
Question: Which vowel sound is /ɪ/ and give an example classroom word from the content.
Answer: /ɪ/ as in "in" (also appears in "Monday").
Card 4
Question: Which vowel sound is /ɒ/ and give example words from the content.
Answer: /ɒ/ as in "sorry" (also appears with different spelling in "because").
Card 5
Question: Which vowel sound is /ʊ/ and give an example from the content.
Answer: /ʊ/ as in "cook" (spelled not with /u/, also in "book").
Card 6
Question: Which vowel sound is /æ/ and what classroom word shows it?
Answer: /æ/ as in "hat" (also appears in "can").
Card 7
Question: Which vowel sound is /ʌ/ and what classroom example is given?
Answer: /ʌ/ as in "up" (also appears in "cut").
Card 8
Question: Which vowel sound is /e/ and what classroom word is given as an example?
Answer: /e/ as in "end" (appears in words like "friends" in the classroom context).
Card 9
Question: Which vowel sound is /ə/ and why is it important? Give examples from the content.
Answer: /ə/ as in "word" or "world"; it appears in many words, always in the unstressed syllable.
Card 10
Question: Which vowel sound is /ɑː/ and what classroom examples are given?
Answer: /ɑː/ as in "star" (also appears in "park").