Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'. Unstressed vowels are vowel sounds that are hard to hear when we say a word out loud. Because we don’t stress these vowels ...

Ta-ble. The second part of the word sounds shorter. We can call this different syllable emphasis stressed or unstressed. In the word ‘banana’, for example, the central syllable is longer ...