English intonation rules

Any word is made up of different phonemes. In English, two or more adjacent consonants in the same syllable are combined together, and this structure is called consonant group (or consonant conjunction or consonant cluster). Two or three consonants are common in English. Four consonants like the sixth tone /siks z/ are less connected. In English words, consonants appear in a certain position, usually only at the beginning or end of the word. It is worth noting that in a consonant group, there must be no vowels between consonants; When reading words ending in unvoiced vowels, you can't attach vowels to consonants. Please note the following aspects:

(1) No middle vowel//can be added between consonants in a consonant group. This is something that novices often do.

Error, such as: blue/blu:/ pronounced as/b lu:/; Flood/fl d/ pronounced /fl d/. This kind of error is common in the consonant group composed of three consonants. Another example is: screen/skri:n/ pronounced /skri:n/. In Chinese, vowels are added after the initials /p/, /b/ and /m/. When learning English, this Chinese pronunciation habit can only be changed through a lot of practice. When practicing English pronunciation, we can cover the first consonant, read /kri:n/ and then /s/, and read /skri:n/.

(2) In consonant groups with consonants +/r/, such as /br/, /r/, /r/, beginners often pronounce /r/ as a tongue sound /l/. Such as: three days:/year/Lu:/. The reason is that when the two sounds are connected, the tip of the tongue does not leave the gum in time to roll the tongue.

(3)/s/+3 When reading /sp/, /sk/ and /st/, the unvoiced consonants /p/, /k/ and /t/ cannot be pronounced as aspirated sounds, and should be slightly voiced, approaching /b/,/,/d/. And when reading their previous /s/, the air source should not be too strong.

(4) In the consonant group with /l/+ as another consonant, some students can't read the voiced sound clearly.

/l ~/, and use//. Such as: film/film/ read as /fi m/, world/w:ld/ read as /w:d/. The reason is that the tip of the tongue does not touch the upper gum, and the root of the tongue does not exert force. Another is that the tip of the tongue is curled into a voiced sound /l ~/. This is also wrong.

(5) In the consonant group of consonants +/l/, some students often add a middle vowel//between consonants and /l/. Such as apple/pl/ pronounced /pl/. The reason is that the tongue moves too slowly in pronunciation activities, and the tip of the tongue does not move to the /L ~/ position of the upper gingival dullness in time.

(6) In the consonant group of consonant +/n/, some students find it difficult to "nasal".

Cavity blasting "consonant group /tn/ and /dn/. Some people often pronounce the vowel //:cotton/k tn/ as /k t n/ between /t/, /d/ and /n/. The result of this reading is that nasal cavity explosion is not realized, because /t/ and /d/ are emitted from the mouth at the same time as//. In order to avoid such pronunciation errors, when reading /t/ and /n/ or /d/ and /n/ continuously, the tip of the tongue should not leave the gums, so that the tongue will block the airflow in the mouth and force the airflow to be discharged from the nasal cavity together with /n/.

Four. The rhythm of discourse

English words have a certain rhythm like music. The music in the discourse forms a rhythm group similar to music bars. Each rhythm usually contains light syllables and stressed syllables. In an English sentence, noun words such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are often stressed, while function words such as prepositions, articles and pronouns are generally weakened. The rhythm of English is reflected by the combination and repetition of stressed syllables and light syllables. The rhythm in spoken English is basically reflected in stressed syllables (indicated by ""), and the time interval is roughly the same. English is a language influenced by stress. Each stress and several lightly pronounced syllables (indicated by "") follow it to form a rhythm group, and sometimes a rhythm group is an empty beat ("

Sunlight/flashlight.

One/two/three

/Four,/Let's go/Let's go/Let's go.

Peter's

young

Er, I left my bag at home.

This is furniture.

The more light syllables between two accents, the less time we spend on each light syllable.

Sometimes a rhythm group begins with an empty beat, followed by several light syllables. Such a rhythm group often needs to pause at the beginning or in the sentence. For example: He

∧ It's a/ student.

/Yes/Peter

,/he

At home.