Assertion: vowel | /r/HasProperty | pronounced
Facets:
value: than the stress
type: OTHER
value: separately
type: MANNER
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: from the preceding vowel
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Examples are the diaereses in the borrowed French words naïve and Noël, which show that the vowel with the diaeresis mark is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel; the acute and grave accents, which can indicate that a final vowel is to be pronounced, as in saké and poetic breathèd; and the cedilla under the "c" in the borrowed French word façade, which shows it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/.
text: the vowel sound is pronounced
text: When the symbol ” ː ” follows a vowel symbol, it means that the vowel is pronounced longer.
text: When the symbol ”” follows a vowel symbol, it means that the vowel is pronounced longer.
text: And if a word has two vowels next to each other, the first vowel usually is pronounced long (examples: sail, bean, soap, juice).
text: At the end of a word, he ה can also be used to indicate that a vowel a should be pronounced.
text: Students should regard macrons as part of the spelling of a word, since the differences of pronunciation they indicate are often crucial to meaning (just as the "silent -e" at the end of the English word cape indicates that the vowel -a- in that word is pronounced long and refers to a very different garment than the word cap, which lacks the -e and thus is pronounced with a short -a- sound).
text: In other languages like French, each type of accent (including the acute) affects the way the vowel is pronounced rather than the stress, making it clear what sound it gets unlike English, where we have to remember which of several possible sounds a vowel might have in a given word.