中性元音,非中央元音

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1、Whatisschwa?SchwaisthenameforthemostcommonsoundinEnglish.Itisaweak,unstressedsoundanditoccursinmanywords.Itisoftenthesoundingrammarwordssuchasarticlesandprepositions.Gettingtheschwasoundcorrectisagoodwayofmakingyourpronunciationmoreaccurateandnatural.Thephonemicsymbolfor

2、thissoundis/ə/. InunstressedsyllablesAnyvowellettercanbepronouncedasschwaandthepronunciationofavowellettercanchangedependingonwhetherthesyllableinwhichitoccursisstressedornot.Lookatthesetwowords:Intheword’man’theletter’a’hasitsfullsound-representedbythesymbol/æ/.In’postm

3、an’thesyllable’man’isnotstressedandtheletter’a’ispronouncedasschwa,representedbythesymbol/ə/. NotjustaletterThesoundschwadoesnotonlyrepresentasingleletter.Insomewordsitisthesoundofseverallettersorevenawholesyllable.Thisisoften,butnotonly,seeninwordswhichhaveasyllablemade

4、upofavowelletterfollowedbytheletter’r’.Remembertheschwasoundisonlyusedifthesyllablewhichitisinisnotstressed. Lookattheseexamples,theschwasoundsaremarkedinred:   Thispresentisformybrother.It’sabookaboutaboywizard.   Tosurvivethecoldweatheryouhavetomakethoroughpreparations

5、.Schwa/ə/   Thisisashortvowelsound/ə/.Andmakethissoundisjustrelaxyourmouth.Youtrylistenandrepeat/ə/,andagain/ə/.InfactthisisaverycommonsoundinEnglish.Andinmanygrammarwordsistheonlyvowelsound,suchas:      a/ə/   of/ə/   the/ə/     that/ə/Let'spracticethese.Listenandrepeat

6、.     a/ə/   of/ə/   the/ə/     that/ə/Andyoucanalsogetthissoundinmanywordswithmorethanonesyllable.Listen.     about   common  standard  butter. Let'spractice.Listentomeandrepeat.    about common standard butter. ExtrainformationThemostimportantsoundinEnglish  Youcouldsa

7、yvowel/ə/ isthemostimportantvowelinEnglish.Infactitissoimportantthatithasitsownname.It'scalled“John”.No,notreally,itisactuallycalledschwa.Schwa,whichcouldbestrangeyouthinkaboutitbecausethewordschwadoesn'thaveschwa'ssound/ə/init.Sowhyisthissoundsoimportant?Wellit'sverynat

8、uralsoundforEnglishspeakersandactuallymostfrequentsoundinEnglish.Itappearsinjusteverywordmorethantwosyl