The letter-name vowels and/uː/have remarkable consistency in nonfinal syllables (with the notable exception of /iː/in unstressed syllables)
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The phonemes are therefore classified into short pure vowels, long pure vowels other than /iː, uː/, diphthongs other than/eɪ, aɪ, əʊ/, and the letter-name vowels plus /uː/.ģ Amidst the clutter of Table 5.1 various generalisations can be discerned:įive of the short pure vowels have a predominant spelling in initial position ( /ʊ/ does not occur in this position, in RP) The letter-name vowels /eɪ, iː, aɪ, əʊ, juː/, plus /uː/, need to be analysed according to position within non-final vs final syllables (and then, within final syllables, according to two further, crossed dichotomies see also sections 6.2 and 6.3), whereas all the rest need to be analysed according to position as initial, medial or final phoneme. 5.1 The general picture: the principal spellings of English vowel phonemesġ This chapter can be summed up by saying that only five of the vowel phonemes of RP /æ, e, ɒ, aʊ, juː/ have highly regular spellings (80%+) wherever they occur, while none of the other 15 has a spelling accounting for more than 60% of its occurrences (though see section 5.4.3 for the possibility that /ɪ/ may also belong in the highly regular group).Ģ The main regularities for all 20 vowel phonemes, plus /juː/, are summarised in Table 5.1, by position in the word.
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