Topic 5
Anatomic Description of Vowel Sounds
Anatomic
description and characteristic spellings for the vowel sounds
No. Phonemes Helping words
1. / i:
/ ----- high-front, tense, unround
It has the same speech sound as the letter
‘E’. It has a longer speech sound than / I /.
B,C,D,E,G,P, T and V
ea --- eat, beat, cheat, heat, feat, meat, neat, pea, peat, sea,
seat, teat, wheat, east, beak,
leak, tea, teak, cheap, heap,
clean, glean, lean, ease,
please, lease,read, peace, treat.....
ee --- bee, beef, deep, peep, deed, jeep,
leek, meek, peek,
week, meet, need, needle, see, seed, seek, tree, three,
eo --- geography, people
ie ---
chief, field, grief, relief, shield, sieve, thief, wield, yield,
brief, belief,
e
--- he, she, we, me
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2.
/ I
/ ----- high-front, lax, unround
It has the same speech sound as the word ‘it’
without ‘t’ sound.
i ---
it, big, bin, bit, clip, chip, crib, dip, drip, fit, flip, fin,
finger,
grip, hip, ink, jib, link,
lip, mid, nip, pig,
pin, pimple, pit,
pink, quit, rid, rib, rip,
sit, sin, sink, sing, slim, sling, slip,
sip, tip, trip, win, zip
e --- decide, beside, behind, belong, below,
betray, beware,
define, defeat, degree, delay, before, begin, behave, belief,
delight,
o --- women
u --- busy, business, minute, (12)
3.
/ eI / -----
mid-front, tense, unround
It has the same speech sound as the letter
‘A’. It is a dipthong with / e / and
/ I
/.
ace
--- ace, face, grace, lace,
place, race
ade
--- grade, shade, spade, wade,
arcade
afe --- safe
age
--- age, cage, page, rage, sage,
wage
ail
--- ail, bail, fail, hail, jail,
mail, nail, pail, quail, rail, sail, tail,
trail, wail, wait
ain --- brain, drain, grain, lain, main, pain, rain,
stain, sprain,
strain, train
ake ---
bake, cake, fake, lake, make, rake, take, sake, wake,
ale
--- ale, bale, dale, gale, hale,
male, pale, sale, tale, wale, whale
ame --- blame, came, dame, fame,
game, lame, name, same, shame,
tame
ane ---
bane, cane, fane, lane, mane, pane, sane, vane, wane
ape ---
ape, cape, gape, grape, nape, shape, tape,
ase
--- base, case, chase
aste
--- caste, chaste, haste, paste, waste
ate ---
ate, bate, crate, date, fate, gate, hate, late, mate, pate,
rate, sate
ave ---
cave, grave, pave, rave, save, wave
ay ---
bay, clay, day, flay, gay, hay, jay, lay, may, nay, play,
pray, ray, say, sway, way
eight ---
eight, weigh, weight --------(*height)
4.
/ e /
----- mid-front, lax, unround.
It has the same speech sound as the letter
‘F’ without / f / sound.
It has shorter speech sound than / eI
/.
F, L, M, N, S, X
e
--- bed, egg, red, bless, less,
mess, debt, nest, best, settle, west
ec ---
deck, neck, peck,
ell
--- bell, cell, dell, fell, hell,
jell, sell, tell, well,
et
--- bet, get, jet, let, met, net,
pet, set, wet
#ea
--- bread, dead, head, heavy,
health, wealth, weapon (#’ea’
also has / i: / speech sound.)
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