标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 3 Track 3

 

 

Exercise 2-15: Colloquial¹ Reductions and Liaisons²    CD 3 Track 3 

In order for you to recognize these sounds when used by native speakers, they are presented here, but I don't recommend that you go out of your way touse them yourself. If, at some point, they come quite naturally of their own accord in casual conversation, you don't need toresist, but please don't force yourself to talk this way. Repeat.

 

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Spoon or Sboon? 

An interesting thing about liaisons is that so much of it has to do withwhether a consonant³ is voiced or not. The key thing to remember is that the vocal⁴ cords don't like switching around at the midpoint. If the first consonant is voiced, the next one will be as well. If the first one is unvoiced, the second one will sound unvoiced, no matter what you do. For example, say the word spoon. Now, say the word sboon. Hear how they sound the same? This is why I'd like you to always convert the preposition to to də when you're speaking English, no matter what comes before it. In the beginning, to get you used to the concept, we made a distinction between tə and də, but now that your schwa isin place, use a single d' sound everywhere, except at the very beginning of a sentence.

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1 colloquial   

adj.口语的，会话的

参考例句：

• It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
• They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。

2 liaisons   

n.联络( liaison的名词复数 )；联络人；（尤指一方或双方已婚的）私通；组织单位间的交流与合作

参考例句：

• She embarked on a series of sexual liaisons with society figures. 她开始接二连三地与社会名流有染。 来自辞典例句
• One of Wentworth's favorite movies is Dangerous Liaisons. went最喜欢的电影之一是《危险关系》。 来自互联网

3 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。

4 vocal   

adj.直言不讳的；嗓音的；n.[pl.]声乐节目

参考例句：

• The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
• Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。