#英語口語# #音標(biāo)發(fā)音技巧輔音連讀#：語言是人類特有的用來表達(dá)意思、交流思想的工具。語言由語音、詞匯和語法三部分組成。語言形式有兩種，一種是用口頭表達(dá)的，稱為口語；一種是用書面表達(dá)的，稱為書面語。

　　美音聽力與發(fā)音小技巧

　　WelcometoDailyTipsonLearningEnglish.Today’stipisonsoundlinking.

　　When2identicalorsimilarconsonantsareinarow,mostsoundsarenotpronounced.Forexample,stopPeter.“stop”endsinthesound“p”,and“Peter”beginsinthesamesound.Togetherthewordsarelinkedas“sto-peter”.Thewordsaren’tpronouncedstopPeter.Topronouncetwoidenticalsoundsoneafteranother,wouldsoundlikesomeonestuttering.Englishwordsarealwayslinkedsmoothly.Similarbutnotidenticalsoundssuchasvoicedandvoicelesspairsofconsonantsarealsolinkedinthisway.Forexample,it’sabigcake.“big”beginsinthesound“g”,cakebeginswiththesound“k”.“k”and“g”differonlyinthat“k”isvoicelessand“g”isvoiced.Whentheyarenexttoeachotherinaphrasethey’relinkedsmoothlybynotaspiratingorpronouncingfullythefirstofthe2sounds.ListencarefullyasIreadtheexampleagain.It’sabigcake.Noticehowthefirstsound“g”isnotreleased.Ifthepairofsoundsisreversed,likein“Ilikegoats.”itisthe“k”soundwhichisnotpronounced.Listenclosely.Ilikegoats.Ilikegoats.

　　There’re8pairsofconsonantsthatdifferonlyinthepresenceorlackofvocalcordvibration.ListenasIgiveoneexampleofsoundlinkingforeachpair.

　　v,f:IloveFrance.

　　δ,θ:Let’sbathethreetimes.

　　z,s:SheisSusan.

　　з,∫:Thegarageshouldbecleaned.

　　dз,t∫:Hehasahugechin.

　　b,p:Putthecapbackon.

　　d,t:Dadtoldme.

　　k,g:IlikeGavin.(?)

　　Itisimportanttoincludethistypeofsoundlinkinginyourspeechifyouwanttoachievefluency.ItisalsoimportanttobeawareofhowthislinkingaffectshowspokenEnglishsounds.Otherwiseyoumaynotunderstandnativespeaker’sspeech.Thishasbeentoday’sdailytip.TuneintomorrowforanotheronlearningEnglish.