Probing into the formation of vowel sounds in English words

Abstract

Learning the sound system of a language is an interesting and challenging task. Understanding the formation of speech sounds requires systematic investigation on the correlation between spellings and their corresponding sounds. This article attempts to probe into the formation of basic vowel sounds of English. The article writer has endeavored to take divergent vowel spellings that form particular vowel sounds. The readers are provided with a brief glimpse about the four term description of the vowel sounds. How an individual vowel sound is produced is described briefly and from where it is produced is shown in the figure. This article is important to the readers who are interested in learning in speech sounds of English.