e (shwa) ai on vowel-base similar to ir in (sir)


Please be mindful of the fact that all the French sounds are produced with greater facial, throat and other phonatory muscle tension than any English sound.


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The French [ ] sound resembles in many ways the vowel base of English words like in the unstressed and the stressed .
It is also similar to .



Its written representations are : e ai on

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 ·[ e ] in the monosyllabic words etc.  

·[ e ] in polysyllabic words where the syllable ends in e :  
 

·[ e ] in consonant rich word boundaries the normally silent final [e] is pronounced :  
·[ ai ]  

·[ on ]  

 

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