Accented, Unaccented Schwa And Dipthongs

ACCENTED &
UNACCENTED
/er/

ACCENTED/STRESSED
/er/ only appears in
/er/
stressed syllables.

How To Pronounce:
To make this sound, the lips will go round a bit. So, the corners come in, and that brings this part away from the face.
The middle part of the tongue raises towards the roof of the mouth in the middle and the tongue actually touches the top teeth on either side. It presses against them. The front of the tongue

ACCENTED/STRESSED
Example
(Spelling
Pattern):
/er/
• er – herd, serve, person
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ear ir – or ur our – heard, earth, learn bird, third, girl
– word, work, worst
– curse, purple, turkey,
– journey

ACCENTED/STRESSED
Example
(Position):
/er/
INITIA
L
earning s urge urgent earthw orm MEDIA
L
furnish certain virtue shirt FINAL purr her blur whirr

ACCENTED/STRESSED
Example
(Tongue
Twister):
/er/
• The urban earthworm urgently ate the early herbs.
• Shirley wore a shiny shirt tucked inside a skinny skirt.
• The thirsty turkey feared the worst on Thursday.

UNACCENTED/UNSTRE
/er/ only appears in
SSED
/er/ unstressed syllables.

Words ending with -er will always be unstressed. It will be lower in pitch and quicker than the stressed syllable in a

UNACCENTED/UNSTRE
Example
(Spelling
Pattern):
SSED
/er/
• er – mother, stalker, louder
• ar – dollar, collar, beggar
• or – color, projector, successor
• ur
– Saturday, cockspur, sandbur UNACCENTED/UNSTRE
Example
(Position):
SSED /er/ overall wizardr y battery

advent ure Octobe r summe r UNACCENTED/UNSTRE
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SSED /er/

UNACCENTED/UNSTRE
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SSED /er/

DIPHTHONGS

DIPHTHONGS
The Greek word diphthongos, which literally means "two sounds" or "two tones“ and also known as a gliding vowel, refers to two adjacent vowel sounds occurring within the same syllable.
The process of moving from one vowel sound to another is called gliding, and thus
Three
Diphthongs
In
another name for Major diphthong is gliding
Standard English vowel. (Also known as phonemic
/aɪ/
/aʊ/
/ɔɪ/