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Park grape 133 Posted 7 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Long and short vowel questions

Is there a rule to use certain short vs long vowel sounds?

For example, the letter sounds of "i"Why is bilirubin pronounced (bill-lee-roo-bin)- short vowel i and then long vowel i

why is Bilingual pronounced (Bye-ling-gwal)- long vowel i

Why are the first "bi-" words pronounced differently?

How about the word Alias? Why is it pronounced (Ay-lee-us). Why is the first letter A a long vowel sound? Why is the i a long vowel sound?

Artesia (ar-tee-sha) vs Acacia (ah-ca-see-ah).

why is sia=sha and cia not sha

Artisan (ar-ti-zun)...why is it pronounced as zun and not san

When is the rule for y sounds?

yellow (yeh)

yacht (ya)

system (eh)
  

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Your pronunciation is not correct on some of your examples. " There are many reasons for the variety of sounds certain vowels and even consonants make. English has a wealth of vocabulary from other languages like Latin, French, Spanish, German, etc.

— Englishmaven

  • Your pronunciation is not correct on some of your examples.
  • " There are many reasons for the variety of sounds certain vowels and even consonants make.
  • English has a wealth of vocabulary from other languages like Latin, French, Spanish, German, etc.
  • Some of the words retain their original sounds, while some others don't because language is dynamic and sounds change from environment to environment.
  • I don't know really know enough about the other words you ask about, but I think I gave you part of the reason for the phenomenon you addressed.
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Your pronunciation is not correct on some of your examples. The second syllable of "bilirubin" is pronounced "uh" not "ee."

yellow (yeh) The e sound is because of the "e" not the "y."

yacht (ya) The "a" sound is because of the "a" not the "y."

system (eh) The "y" is pronounced "i" as in "sit."

There are many reasons for the variety of sounds certain vowels

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park grape 133Artisan (ar-ti-zun)

ar-ti-zan.

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You asked some great questions, park grape 133.

It's been a long time and many moves and languages since I had good ESL notes. I'll try to dig up some answers.

1. There is a Korean professor at MIT, where they have posted his lectures on pronunciation for free- if you Google.

A lot has to do what syllable gets stressed or if there are doubling of consonants.

Borrowed

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