一. 5個R音節的讀音
R音節是由五個元音字母加上輔音字母R一起構成的音節，R音節是許多單詞的構成部分，掌握R音節的讀音一般規則對單詞的拼讀與記憶很有幫助 。在單詞中如果出現元音字母后有兩個R連在一起，如 sorry, parrot,hurry，這里的兩個R是為了區分開音節與閉音節，這樣的結構一般不是R音節 。R音節在單詞中的讀音一般規則如下表：
R音節在重讀音節中的讀音
1).ar在重讀音節中讀[a:]
例如：sharpener [‘?ɑ:p?n?] car [kɑ:] dark [dɑ:k] arm [ɑ:m] card [kɑ:d] park [pɑ:k] hard [hɑ:d] farmer [‘fɑ:m?] party [‘pɑ:ti] artist [‘ɑ:tist] garden [‘gɑ:dn] far [fɑ:]
2)．er在重讀音節中讀[ε:]
例如：term [t?:m] certainly [‘s?:t?nli] person [‘p?:sn] university [,ju:ni’v?:siti] Germany [‘d??:m?ni] serve [s?:v] prefer [pri’f?:] deserve [di’z?:v] nervous [‘n?:v?s] expert [ek’sp?:t]
【corner怎么讀？十二個元輔音字母組合及其讀音】3.)ir在重讀音節中讀[ε:]
例如：skirt [sk?:t] thirty [‘θ?:ti] thirsty [‘θ?:sti] first [f?:st] birthday [‘b?:θdei] circle [‘s?:kl] dirty [‘d?:ti]
4）．or在重讀音節中讀[?:]
例如：for [f?:] short [??:t] sport [sp?:t] born [b?:n] report [ri’p?:t] north [n?:θ] fork [f?:k] nor [n?:] order [‘?:d?] corner [‘k?:n?] storm [st?:m] afford [?’f?:d] performance [p?’f?:m?ns] pork [p?:k]
5）．ur在重讀音節中讀[ε:]
例如：purse [p?:s] purple [‘p?:pl] Thursday [‘θ?:zdi] turkey [‘t?:ki] turn [t?:n] church [t??:t?] disturb [dis’t?:b] hurt [h?:t] return [ri’t?:n] surfing [‘s?:fi?] Turkey [‘t?:ki]
R音節在非重讀音節中讀
R音節在非重讀音節中讀[?]
例如：number [‘n?mb?] ruler [‘ru:l?] father [‘fɑ:e?] after [‘ɑ:ft?] doctor [‘d?kt?] Saturday [‘s?t?di] dollar[‘d?l?] popular [‘p?pjul?] sugar [‘?ug?] perhaps [p?’h?ps] conductor [k?n’d?kt?] scissors [‘siz?z] comfortable [‘k?mf?t?bl] inventor [in’vent?] shepherd [‘?ep?d] inspector [in’spekt?]
R音節在W后的讀音
1）． ar在W后讀[?:]
例如：wardrobe [‘w?:dr?ub]warm[w?:m]war[w?:] towards [t?’w?:dz] rewarding [ri’w?:di?]
2）．or在W后讀[ε:]
例如：work [w?:k] word [w?:d] world [w?:ld] worse [w?:s] worth [w?:θ]
二.七個元輔音字母組合及其讀音：
R音節是英語中最常見的元輔音字母組合，R音節的讀音在前面已講到 。除了R音節外，英語中常見的元輔音字母組合如下表：
1）．字母AW組合讀[?:]，例如：draw [dr?:] law[l?:] saw [s ?:] awful [??:fl] flaw [fl?:] lawn[l?:n] jaw[d??:] paw[p?:]
2）字母AY組合讀[ei]1）．字母AW組合讀[?:]，例如：draw [dr?:] law[l?:] saw [s ?:] awful [??:fl] flaw [fl?:] lawn[l?:n] jaw[d??:] paw[p?:]
例如：today [t?’dei] way [wei] play [plei] say [sei] day [dei] away [?’wei] player [‘plei?] may [mei] stay [stei] maybe [‘meibi] relay [ri’lei] lay [lei] pay[pei]
3）字母EW組合讀[ju:]
例如：news [nju:z] few [fju:] chew [t?u:] crew [kru:]jewelry [‘d?u:?lr?] Jewish [?d?u:??]
4)字母EY組合讀在重讀音節中讀
例如：hey[hei] they [eei] grey [grei] key [ki:]；
