英語語音基本知識
要想說好英語語音,就要有英語語音的一些基本知識。小編為大家整理了一些英語語言的基本知識,希望對大家學習英語有幫助。
1.關於語音的幾個概念
1字母:語言的書寫形式。母音字母a, e, iy, o, u,
2音標:詞的語音形式。
3音素:音的最小的單位。英語中有48音素。
4音節:由母音和子音構成的發音單位。ap'ple, stu'dent, tea'cher, un'der'stand
5母音:發音響亮,是樂音;口腔中氣流不收阻礙;是構成音節的主要音。英語中有20母音。
6子音:發音不響亮,是噪音;口腔中氣流受到阻礙;不是構成音節的主要音。英語中有28子音。
7開音節:a 子音+母音+子音+e name bike ;b 子音+母音 he, go, hi
8閉音節:a 子音+母音+子音 bad, bed, sit, hot, cup; b母音+子音it
9重讀音節:單詞中發音特別響亮的音節。
2. 母音:注意:下面空方括號是電腦無法輸入的音標
1[i:] sea, he, see, piece, ceiling
2[i] sit, build, miss, myth
3[e] bed, desk, head,
4[æ] bad, land, bank, stamp
5[a:] car, fast, class, plant, calm, aunt
6[ɔ] hot, want
7[ ɔ:] door, more, sport, ball, warm, author, court, bought, caught
8[u:] good, who, blue, soup,
9[u] look, put, women, could
10[Λ] cup, come, blood, rough
11[ә:] girl, work, serve, nurse
12[ә] cadre, ago, forget, polite, dollar, doctor, famous, Saturday
13[ei] cake, they, play, eight, great,
14[ai] bike, die, neither, light, try, find, height, eye
15[әu] phone, cold, boat, soul, grow
16[au] house, town
17[ɔi] boy, oil
18[iә] dear, idea, deer, here, fierce,
19[εә] pear, care, there, fair
20[uә] tour, poor,
3. 容易混淆的母音
1[e] [æ] bed bad; men, man; pen, pan; lend land
2[i:] [ei] real rail; greet, great; mean, main; read raid
3[e] [ai] bet bite; red write; said side, head, hide
4[au] [ɔ:] house horse; loud lord; south sauce; now nor; count corn; cloud clause
5[au] [Λ] found fond; gown gone; down don
4. 子音
1[p] pen,
2[b] bed, comb
3[t] tell,
4[d], day, played, wanted
5[k] cold, sky, quick, school, back, accept, box
6[g] big, go, guess, language
7[m] man
8[n] nine, knife, autumn
9[η] bank, uncle, English, sing,
10[l] land, world
11[r] read, write,
12[f] five, cough, laugh
13[v] voice, of
14[θ] think,
15[ ð] this, bathe
16[s] sit, miss, science, case, scarf
17[z] zoo, close,
18[∫] sure, she, social, nation
19[/] pleasure,
20[h] hot, who, hour
21[w] wall, what, answer
22[j] yes
23[t∫] child, teach, catch
24[d/] joke, bridge,
25[ts] boats
26[dz] goods
27[tr] tree
28[dr] dream
5. 容易混淆的子音
1[v] [w] vet wet; vest west; vine wine; very well
2[s] [θ] sink think; sort thought; miss myth; mass math
3[z] [ð] closing clothing; breeze breathe; bays bathes
4[n] [η] thin thing; sin sing; ban bang win wing; ran rang
6. 讀音規則
1重讀音節見母音和子音的例句
2非重讀音節 [ә] banana, student, today, after,
[i] orange, secret, evening, very, Monday
7. 特殊讀音
1音的連讀:not at all, half an hour, I love you and all. after all
2失去爆破:good girl, good student, good job, expression, school, extreme
3音的同化:this year, Would you do it? Can't you see it?
8. 重音
1單詞重音
A雙音節詞
a一般在第一個音節重讀。letter, sorry
b有 a-, be-, de-, re-, res-, in-, im-, en-, em-, es-, ex-, con-, com-, dis-, mis-, pre-, per-, pro-, trans- 等字首的詞,第二個音節是重音。
a'bout, be'lieve, ad'dress, de'cide, re'port, con'demn, res'pect, com'pare, in'form, dis'cuss,
im'press, mis'take, en'force, pre'pare, em'ploy, per'mit, es'cape, pro'duce, ex'claim,trans'late
c有 de-, in-, re-, con-, pre- 等字首的重音與詞義和詞類有關, 一般名詞的重音在第一個音節上,其它的詞性在第二個音節上。
'record, re'cord; 'insult, in'sult; 'conduct, con'duct; 'present pre'sent; 'content, con'tent
d有些複合詞和帶有字首 re-, ex-, un-, pre-, post-, 等的詞,有兩個重音。
'out'side, 're'tell, 'well-'known, 'un'real, 'fif'teen, 'Chi'nese, 'pre-'war, 'post-'war
B多音節詞
a一般倒數第三個音節是重音。'difficult, 'communist, 'family, e'conomy, oppor'tunity,de'mocracy.
b有一些雙音節詞,加了字首和字尾成了多音節,但這些詞按原來詞根的重音讀音。
'carefully, in'definite, 'comfortable, con'ductor, ac'cording, dis'turbance, 'complicated,es'tablishment,
c詞尾有-eous, -grahpy, -ial, -ian, -ic, -ics, -ience, ient, -ify, -ion, -ious, -ity, ive 字尾的詞,重音在這些字尾的前一個音節上。
cour'teous, cal'ligraphy, edi'torial, his'torian, peri'odic, mathe'matics, ex'perience,suf'ficient, i'dentify, trans'lation, re'ligious, curi'osity, pro'tective
d詞尾有 -ain, -ee, -eer, -ese, -ette 字尾的詞,重音在該字尾上,而且有一個次重音。enter'tain, emplo'yee, mountai'neer, Japa'nese, ciga'rette
2句子重音
A 英語的節奏:輕-輕-重-輕-輕或重-輕-輕輕重
B 英語句子的長短:是由句子中的重讀詞的數目決定的,而不是象漢語那樣由句子中的漢字數目決定的。
C 實詞重讀副詞重讀,虛詞輕讀冠詞,單音節介詞,單音節連詞,人稱代詞,反代詞,物主代詞,關係代詞,相互代詞,助動詞,情態動詞和系動詞be.
D 實詞不重讀的特殊情況
a 實詞第二次出現
He thinks of that as a child thinks.
b 一個名詞被第二個名詞修飾
I met her in the railway station.
c 代替詞
Which book do you want? The small one.
d 感嘆詞中的 what 和how
What a good day it is! How beautiful she is!
e street 在專有名詞中
Wangfujing Street.
f this在這些短語中,this morning/afternoon/evening
E虛詞重讀的特殊情況
a 情態動詞,助動詞和系動詞be在句首,句尾和否定時。
Do you like it? Yes, I do. Are you a doctor? Yes, I am. Can you help me? Yes, I can.
I don't like you. He isn't a worker.
b 情態動詞表示可能,驚奇和肯定時。
They may come this evening. Can it be five already? He must be in the room.
c 介詞在句首和句尾。
In the box, he found a letter. He is the person I talked with.
d 引導複合句的連詞在句首。
If you wish, I'll visit you. When he comes, I'll tell him.
e反身代詞表示強調。
He couldn't come himself.