音標(International Phonetic Alphabet)是記錄音素的符號,也是音素的標寫符號,應用於語言學中。音標的提出者是H·斯維斯特 P·帕西 瓊斯。英語音標中有20個元音,28個輔音,***48個。
I. 輔音(28個)
[p] pot pig put
[b] bed bag book
[t] tooth teacher tea
[d] dog dig duck
[k] cake keep cat
[g] grandpa girl green
[f] father fat foot
[v] five very vent
[s] small study bus
[z] jazz zoo zero
[θ] eighth forth tenth
[δ] those these that
[∫] cash shoe ship
[з] measure pleasure leisure
[t∫]chair chicken lunch
[dз] jack job change
[tr] tree truck train
[dr] dress drink drain
[ts] students coats cats
[dz] beds odds codes
[m] mum moon morning
[n] moon nut needle
[?] ink link ring
[h] hello hurry hey
[l] look leg lake
[r] rain radio room
[w] window wake week
[j] yellow yes you
II. 單元音(12個)
[e] yes yellow bed
[ae] cat bad dad
[a:] are car far
[?] pot got dog
[?:] call tall or
[?] cut nut but
[?:]curtain further fur
[?]mother color cooler
[i] ink big pig
[i:] jeep tea eat
[u] good book look
[u:] cool zoo tool
III. 雙元音(8個)
[ei] age eight make
[ai] ice bike nice
[?i] toy oil boy
[?u] old joke gold
[au] cloud mouth cow
[ε?] air fair chair
[i?] ear near year
[u?] cure dure pure