标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 2 Track 41

 

 

Exercise 2-6: Consonant¹ / Consonant Liai sons                                CD 2 Track 41 

I just didn't get the chance .  [I·jusdidn't·ge(t)the·chance.] I've been late twice.  [I'vbinla(t)twice.]

 

In the preceding examples you can  see that because  the ending [st] of just  and the beginning [d] of  didn't  are so near each other in the mouth, it's  not worth the effort to start the sound all over again, so they just flow in to each other.  You don't say I justə didn 't ə get ə the chance, but do say I just didn't ge(t) the chance.  In the same way, it's too much work to say  I'v ə beenə late ə twice,  so you say it almost as if  it were a single word, I' binla (t) twice.

The sound of TH is a special case. It is a floater between areas. The so und is sometimes created by the tongue popping out from betwee n the teeth and other times on  the back of the top teeth, combining with various letters to form a new  composite sound. For instance, [s] moves forward and the [th] moves back to meet at the mid-point between the two.  

Note Each of the categories in the drawing contains two labels—voiced and unvoiced. What does that mean ? Put your thumb and index fingers on your  throat and say [z]; you should feel a vibration from your throat in your fingers . If you whisper that same sound , you end up with [s] and you fee l that your fingers don't vibrate.  So, [z] is a voiced sound, [s], unvoi ced. The consonants² in the two left columns are paired like that.

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1 consonant   

n.辅音；adj.[音]符合的

参考例句：

• The quality of this suit isn't quite consonant with its price.这套衣服的质量和价钱不相称。
• These are common consonant clusters at the beginning of words.这些单词的开头有相同辅音组合。

2 consonants   

n.辅音，子音( consonant的名词复数 )；辅音字母

参考例句：

• Consonants are frequently assimilated to neighboring consonants. 辅音往往被其邻近的辅音同化。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》