The America Accent Training-------The 50 rules you must know
The Vowel Sound Rules
Rule One : The Neutral and Tense Vowels
RULE : ?The tense vowels pronounced with mouth move and tongue ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ?The neutral vowels pronounced without any cheek change
The Four Main Neutral Vowel ：/I/???? /ε/??????? /?/&/?/???? /v/
The Homologous Tense Vowel：/i/???? /?/??????? /a/???????????? /u/
Rule Two : The Difference Between /i/ &/I/
The Vowel of /i/ ：Usually appeared with “ee” 哺徊、“ea”狐史、“ie” and “ei”
The Vowel of /I/：Usually appeared with “i” 筑凫、 “y(in mid of word)”
Example：feet & fit 响禽；leave & live ；sleep & slip
Rule Three : The Difference Between? /a/ &/?/
The Vowel of /a/?? :? Usually appeared with? "o"?? "a"?? , and the /a/ is often longer than general vowel particular when it's a noun or verb.?? I.E: sto-p,impo-ssible
The Vowel of /?/?? : Usually appeared with " u"?? "ou"? or "o"
Rule Four? : The Difference Between /v/ & /u/
The Vowel of /v/? :? Usually appeared with “oo”? “ould” “u”
The Vowel of /u/ ： Usually appeared with? “oo”? “ue”
Rule Five ：The Tense Vowel of? /?/
The pronounce of /?/ often resemble to Chinese letter group “ai” with tense tone
Usually appeared with letter “a”
The tone? would be prolong when it's? a noun or verb
Rule Six? ：The Tense Vowel of? /?/
The pronounce of? /?/? often resemble to Chinese letter “o” with tense tone
Usually appeared with letter group :“al”?? “au”? “aw”
Rule Seven ：The? Vowel / Phonetic Symbol of /ou/
The pronounce of /ou/ is similar with chinese letter group /ou/ with tense tone
Usually appeared with letter or letter group :“o”? “ow”“oa”
Rule Eight? ： The Vowel / Phonetic Symbol of /?r/
The phoneme/?r/? is tense? and /r/? and the tone would been prolong when followed with vowel letter
Usually appeared with letter group consisted with r and other letter? ：? “er” “ar”? “ear”? “ir”? “or”? “ur”
Rule Nine ： Understanding Stress Vowels
The stress vowels are louder and longer
Which syllable should been stressed ???? key word of sentence? and stress syllable like noun and verb?? I.E? i love(st) it
Rule Ten? : Understanding Reduced Vowels
The rules of reduced vowels : 1.reduce unimportant words like prep and conj
2.all reduced vowel usually sound same as? /?/
3. reduce the vowel of the unstressed syllable
I.E?? look at me————look ?t me嘉蕾；?? talk to you————talk t? you 非凌；?? looking for you————looking f? you
