by sheila_admin | Jun 28, 2012 | Language Skills, Linguistics
Vowels and Consonants are the sounds which go to make up the English language. If air passes straight through the mouth without being stopped or constricted anywhere, this forms a vowel sound. If the air is stopped at any point or the mouth is constricted somehow,...
by sheila_admin | Jun 16, 2012 | Linguistics
The word vowel comes from the Latin word vowis meaning voice. In English we should make the distinction between spoken vowels and written vowels. In spoken English there are approximately 12 basic vowel sounds (see below); in written English, however, there are just 5...
