long vowels

long vowels : In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound. Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant, and may etymologically be one such as in Australian English. While not distinctive in most dialects of English, vowel length is an important phonemic factor in many other languages, for instance in Arabic, Czech, Estonian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Fijian, Finnish, Japanese, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Classical Latin, Classical Nahuatl, Lombard, German, Dutch, Latvian, Old English, Samoan, Lao, Thai, and Vietnamese. It plays a phonetic role in the majority of English dialects, and is said to be phonemic in a few dialects, such as Australian English and New Zealand English. It also plays a lesser phonetic role in Cantonese, which is exceptional among the spoken variants of Chinese. Many languages do not distinguish vowel length, and those that do usually distinguish between short vowels and long vowels. There are very few langu....   More from Wikipedia

long vowels : The Scottish Vowel Length Rule, also known as Aitken's Law after Professor A.J. Aitken, who formulated it, describes how vowel length in Scots and Scottish English is conditioned by environment. The rule affects all vowels in Central dialects, while in peripheral dialects some vowels remain..   More from Wikipedia

  Lesson in Phonemes, Long Vowels: Overview

  Learn English and improve your pronunciation with programme 8 in our series of 44 videos designed to help improve your pronunciation and English. This is a long vowel programme.

Question : how can I explain long vowels to my 9 year old? Is there a web site where I can find out if some words have long vowels?

Answer : Try these two sites to start with.. You can always say that the long A, sounds like the letter, A...to start with...   More from Yahoo Answers

Question : I am student teaching and trying to find a mini-lesson to teach that when two vowels are together the first one makes a long vowel sound and the second is silent. I have searched online and so far have been unable to find anything. Thanks for the ideas!

Answer : You mean such as in the words "make" "bake" and "fake"? This would be great to do with literacy stations. Create some words a and have "ake" and have them change the first letter to make new words, again such as "bake" and "cake" and "take" and "make". Or use other types that go along. Have the children put the scrambled words together. Another 3rd grade literacy activitiy is to have students look at comics in the paper and circle words they find that have the long vowel. Have them do this with a partner and explain how that word works. Make sure the paper is laminated so they can wipe off and the next group can go. PS. Students do this normally in 1st grade, are these IEP students or is this a 1-8-1 room? If you need a lesson in 10 mins or under, you're going to have to do a worksheet. Try to make it creative- perhaps have a picture and have them glue on letters like a picture of a "cake" and have them glue on C-A-K-E. Keep stressing that the A is long b/c of the 2nd vo....   More from Yahoo Answers