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- 8 pure vowels and 12 diphthongs
- 14 pure vowels and 6 diphthongs
- 12 pure vowels and 8 diphthongs
- 10 pure vowels and 10 diphthongs.
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Option 3 : 12 pure vowels and 8 diphthongs
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Download Solution PDFPhoneme: It is the ‘smallest unit of sound' that distinguishes one word from another. Since sounds cannot be written, we use letters to represent or stand for the sounds.
Vowel sound: In vowel sounds, the airflow is unobstructed when the sound is made. For example, the vowel sounds are the music or movement of our language.
- There are 20 vowel sounds in English.
- Among them 12 pure vowel sounds (monophthong) and 8 diphthongs in the English language.
- Pure Vowel Sounds/Monophthong: It refers to a single pure vowel sound which is articulated with exactly one mouth position. For example, Beat /i:/
- Diphthong: It refers to 'two sounds glide' which is articulated with a slight change in the tongue/mouth position. Diphthong has two vowels, it is considered as a single unit and is a ‘syllabic’. For examples, Ice [ais],Price [prais]
Hence, it becomes clear that in the English language there are 12 pure vowels and 8 diphthongs.
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