Long vowels and Reduced Long Vowels

koster | 22:04 Fri 04th Mar 2005 | Arts & Literature

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I am an English Foreign Language Teacher, and I have been asked by one student I teach privately to help him distinguish between "long vowels" and "reduced long vowels". He needs to be able to do this for a course he is studying which leads to an examination.
I have never taught this and don�t know what they are. Please could someone help me with some examples, preferably minimal pairs, and any tips on teaching this?

Thanks in advance!

Laurence

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These may be of help

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws98/presentations/preliminary/burzio/abstract.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_for_English

http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j10/efl.php

http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/4301f98/2sept.html

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:Y0ys4b5oelAJ:www.uni-greifswald.de/~anglam/staff/Material/Fanning/PronRules.pdf+english+reduced+long+vowels&hl=en%20target=nw

Laurence - are you in Sheffield?

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Thank you.

"IndieSinger" - no I'm not in Sheffield, I'm in Spain. Why?

Just nosey! I know someone called Laurence who uses the name "koster" and who is an EFL teacher in Sheffield!

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