标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 4 Track 14

 

Chapter 8. More Reduced Sounds      CD 4 Track 14 

There are two sounds that look similar, but sound quite different. One is the tense vowel¹ [u], pronounced ooh, and the other is the soft vowel [ü], whose pronunciation is a combination of ih and uh. The [u] sound is located far forward in the mouth and requires you to round your lips. The [ü] is one of the four reducedvowel sounds that are made in the throat: The most tense, and highest in the throat is [ε], next, slightly more relaxed is [i], then [ü], and deepest and most relaxed is the neutral schwa [ə]. For the reduced semivowel schwa + R, the throat is relaxed, but the tongue is tense.

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1 vowel   

n.元音；元音字母

参考例句：

• A long vowel is a long sound as in the word"shoe ".长元音即如“shoe” 一词中的长音。
• The vowel in words like 'my' and 'thigh' is not very difficult.单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。