Chapter 3.- Long Vowels

            “How now brown cow” It sentence has English long vowels sounds. They tend to be long. Those can be seem as a group of vowel sounds that are consistently longer in a given context. Also, some writers give the label tens to long vowels. Long vowel sound traits are they are presided by two dots, one vowel symbol plus a length mark.   They are six /i:/, /a:/, /u:/, and so on. It shows the difference from short vowel sounds that are five without two dots. Besides, the way speaker produces them is different because of the tongue shape, position, and lips position as the /u/ vs. /u:/  lips are only moderately rounded, and is much less back and less close.

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