Module: 3
Posted by: Lieni Immarie R. Monteron
Sources: 1. Speech and Oral Communication for College Students
by Rafaela H. Diaz
2. EFCOM by Milagros Castillo-Espina
3. http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile
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Some speech sounds contain more than one vowel. A diphthong is a sound composed of two vowels pronounced in close succession with in the limits of a syllable. The vowel sound in the word, fine, is a diphthong for it starts from the /a/ position and glides smoothly to the semi vowel /y/ with in one syllable. Thus a diphthong is a vowel sound that starts from one tongue and lip position and glides upward continuously to a second tongue and lip position. Since the sounds are enunciated so quickly, it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. The two component parts of a diphthong are called its elements. The first element is always stronger than the second; the second is never stressed.
Posted by: Lieni Immarie R. Monteron
Sources: 1. Speech and Oral Communication for College Students
by Rafaela H. Diaz
2. EFCOM by Milagros Castillo-Espina
3. http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile
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At the end of this topic, the learners are expected to:
· Enumerate all the diphthongs;
· Identify the vowels used to form the diphthongs;
· Distinguish the diphthong in the word.
Some speech sounds contain more than one vowel. A diphthong is a sound composed of two vowels pronounced in close succession with in the limits of a syllable. The vowel sound in the word, fine, is a diphthong for it starts from the /a/ position and glides smoothly to the semi vowel /y/ with in one syllable. Thus a diphthong is a vowel sound that starts from one tongue and lip position and glides upward continuously to a second tongue and lip position. Since the sounds are enunciated so quickly, it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. The two component parts of a diphthong are called its elements. The first element is always stronger than the second; the second is never stressed.
The diphthongs are /ai/, /au/, and /oi/
Examples:
/ai/ /oi/ /au/
Quite point now
Sight boil count
Time oil brown
Fire soil proud
Might toy sound
buy join mouth
pie spoil crown
guide noise ouch
fly out
sigh cloud
Guide Questions:
Determine what diphthong is being used in words.
- dine 11. buy 21. night
- blouse 12. prize 22. dice
- joy 13. climb 23. light
- fried 14. poise 24. soy
- foul 15. height 25. allow
- brouse 16. howl
- rhyme 17. dye
- annoy 18. loud
- slouch 19. dice
- moist 20. coil
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