In a new publication in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, researchers in the Penn State Colleges of Health and Human Development and Medicine determined that vowel ...

NARRATOR: 'Y' is a bit unusual, because sometimes it acts as a consonant in a word, and sometimes it acts as a vowel. The letter 'y' changes colour from red, like the consonants, to blue ...

Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'. Unstressed vowels are vowel sounds that are hard to hear ...

Vowels occur at the peak of the syllable--the most sonorous part of the syllable. Glides immediately precede a vowel; they are less sonorous than the vowel they precede. Semivowels immediately follow ...

The Vietnamese alphabet has essentially the same alphabet as English. See figure one. There are 12 vowel letters existing in almost all Vietnamese dialects. See figure two. The pronunciation of these ...