ENGLISH AND SPANISH VOWELS SOUNDS

It is important know differences between English vowels and Spanish vowels. In Spanish has five pure vowels sounds such as: a,e,i,o,u . Also “The vowels a, e, and o are pronounced quite softly, while i and u are pronounced with a strong tone”. for example, a: pan, e: mes, i:, bonita,o: yo, u: tú. English has eleven pure vowels sound that are form for five long vowels iː,aː,uː,ɔː,ɜ ːand six short vowels sounds I,e,a, ae,^,u  In addition, for foreign learners is difficult recognize and pronounce these sounds, because in some case has similar sound.     

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PLOSIVES

This unit is about English plosives. It refers six plosive consonants sound as /p,t,k,g,d/ and one consonant that produce in glottal place h ,but the plosive consonants have different place of articulation. For example, /b,p/ sounds are bilabial. Besides, “all six plosives consonants sounds occur at the beginning of a vowel (initial position), between other sound (medial position), and at the end of a word (final position)”. For example,

Initial position---CV= put

Medial position---VCV=apple

Final position---VC= up 

References:

Peter  Roach, English Phoentics and Phonology, Cambridge University, New York, fourth edition,2009