英语国际音标常见字母组合发音规律
一、单元音(12个)
1. / i:/
1) 字母e在开音节中:be, he, we, these, metre, relay, recycle, eve
2) 字母i的特殊发音:police, machine
3) 字母组合ee :sweep, between, agree, sleep, seen, feel, feed,
cheese, keeper, bee, see, tree, three
4) 字母组合ea:please, (New) Zealand, weak, leaf, wheat, bleat,
dream, disease, beach, least, tea, seat, read
5) 字母组ie :field, believe, thief, piece
6) 字母组ei :receive
7) 字母组ey: key
8) 字母组合e-e:Pete, mete, these, Chinese
2. / ɪ /
1) 字母a在弱读中:village, passage, palace, necklace, encourage
2) 字母e在弱读中: ticket, basket, behind, enjoy, business, subject,
refuse, repair, replay, forest, toilet, wallet, racket, pocket, result
3) 字母i在闭音节中:bring, did, ill, pick, fifty, English, ticket,
village, picnic, pumpkin, tourist, riddle, it, is, six, this
4) 字母i的特殊发音:practice, opposite, practice, cousin, rabbit 但
possible发音为/ ə /
5) 字母i在“ve”前:live, give
6) 字母u的特殊发音:busy, business
7) 字母组合ai 弱读:mountain, captain
8) 字母组合ie:cookie
9) 字母组合ay 弱读:Sunday, Monday
recycle是什么意思11) 字母y 弱读:sorry, baby, lucky, any, very, study, fifty
3. / e /
1) 字母a的特殊发音:many, any
2) 字母e在闭音节中“e”发短音:bell, left, leg, when, went, check,
invent, unless, collect
3) 字母组合ea :bread, heavy, head, ready, death, already, instead,
feather, leather, weather
4. / æ /
1) 字母a在闭音节中:that, ladder, matter, man, rabbit, panda, bank,
channel, cat, cap, back
2) 字母a在“ve”前:have
5. /ɜ:/
1) 字母组合or 在字母“w”后:work, word, world, worse, worth,
worker
2) 字母组合er在重读音节中:her, German, term, thermos, prefer,
person, serve, nervous
3) 字母组合ir:girl, bird, third, circle, shirt, skirt
4) 字母组合ur:turn, nurse, disturb, surf, Thursday
5) 字母组合ear:heard, earth, early, year, learn, search
6. / ə /
1) 字母a在弱读:banana, England, elephant, animal, another,
madam, several, probably, human, island, machine, comfortable
2) 字母e在弱读中:broken, moment, even, accident, happen, quarrel
3) 字母o在弱读中:conductor, opposite, tonight, melon, police,
produce, collect, protect, pollute
4) 字母u弱读中:unless, suppose, success
6) 字母组合or在弱读中:forget
7) 字母组合er做后缀时:under, teacher, ruler, brother, sister, father,
mother, supper
8) 字母组合er在弱读中:concert, western, desert, shepherd
7. /ɑ:/
1) 字母a在字母“n”前:dance, can’t, shan’t, France, answer, chance,
banana
2) 字母a在字母“s”“ss”前: ask, past, basket, class, glass, last, grass,
basketball
3) 字母a在 “th”前:father, rather, path
4) 字母组合ar:hard, car, large, bookmark, mark, regard, barn, chart,
cart, hard, garden, park
5) 字母组合al特殊发音: half
6) 字母组合au特殊发音:laugh
7) 字母组合are:are
8) 字母组合ear:heart
8. / ʌ /
1) 字母o在“m, n, th”前:come, some, front, month, son, Monday,
monkey, money, another, brother, mother, nothing, other, none, wonder 但tomb / u:/
2) 字母o特殊发音:does, love, among, colour, discover
3) 字母u在闭音节中:must, sun, duck, uncle, puzzle, nut, dumpling,
conductor, fun, butter, club, cup, much
4) 字母组合ou / ʌ /:trouble, young, double, country, cousin, rough,
encourage, tough
5) 字母组合oo / ʌ / 特殊发:blood, flood
9. /ɔ:/
1) 字母组合ough /ɔ:/:bought, thought
2) 字母组合or 的一般发音:for, short, boring, storm, corn, corner,
order, important, nor, horse, forty, morning
3) 字母组合ar /ɔ:/ 在字母“w”或音标/w/后:war, quarter, towards
4) 字母组合 al /ɔ:/ 一般发音: wall, tall, ball, fall, hall
【注:字母组合al /ɔ:l/特殊发音 also, already, always, salt, so-called,
although】
5) 字母组合oor /ɔ:/:floor, door
6) 字母组合ore /ɔ:/:before, more, score
7) 字母组合our /ɔ:/:four, yours, course, fourth
8) 字母组合 au /ɔ:/:August, autumn, pause, audience, caught, taught
9) 字母组合 aw /ɔ:/:draw, law
10. / ɒ /
1) 字母a在“w”前“wh”后:what, wash, want, watch, wallet, 但:
water /ɔ:/
2) 字母o在闭音节中:John, doctor, office, soccer, rock, concert,
foggy, across, possible, cost, cotton, teapot, rocket, of, not, box, long
3) 字母组合au / ɒ / 特殊发音:because
11. / u:/
1) 字母o在“wh”后:who, whose, whom
2) 字母o的特殊发音:move, do, two, improve, lose
3) 字母u在“l”前后:blue, ruler, flu, rule
4) 字母u的特殊发音:June, truth, pollute, true
5) 字母组合ou:group, soup, through
6) 字母组合oo 的一般发音:afternoon, room, broom, zoo, moon,
pool, school, noodle, spoon, tool, tooth, cool, shoot, too
7) 字母组合oo的特殊发音:food, seafood
8) 字母组合ew的特殊发音:drew
12. / ʊ /
1) 字母u的特殊发音:put, push, sugar, full, pull
2) 字母组合oo,一般在字母“k, d, t”前:book, look, good, foot,
cook, wood
3) 字母组合oo / ʊ / 弱读中:classroom, bedroom, sitting-room,
cookie
二、双元音(8个)
1. /eɪ/
1) 字母a在开音节中“a”发字母本:name, page, date, lazy, café,
wave, cake, face, plate, paper, baby, table, radio
2) 字母组合ea /eɪ/:great, break
3) 字母组合 ai一般情况下:train, fail, mainland, rail, straight, rain,
maid, tail
4) 字母组合ei /eɪ/: eight, eighth
5) 字母组合ay /eɪ/ 在重读中:day, today, display, may, play, away
6) 字母组合ey /eɪ/:they
2. /aɪ/
1) 字母i在开音节中:quite, side, outside, invite, dive, twice, mine,
bike, like, nice, time, driver, Friday
2) 字母i在“nd”前:kind, behind, find, mind, blind, China, Chinese
3) 字母组合ie /aɪ/:die, lie
4) 字母组合ei /aɪ/ :neither, either
5) 字母组合i(gh) /aɪ/:high, light, right, night, bright
6) 字母y在重读音节中:my, why, sky, by, fly
3. /ɔɪ/