Name: 如何理解英國口音(第一部分) (How to Understand UK Accents (Part 1))
Uploaded: 2021-01-31T19:10:49.000Z
Duration: 17 min 22 s

情態助動詞 B1

you may be surprised that people don't speak the same

你可能會驚訝於人們不說同樣的話。

as the recordings in your English language textbook

English - like every other language – exhibits variation

英語--就像所有其他語言一樣--表現出不同的變化

If you're aware of how people speak differently

如果你意識到人們說話的方式是不同的

you'll find it easier to understand a wider range of native English speakers

你會發現它更容易理解更廣泛的英語為母語的人。

為了幫助大家，我做了一個3部分的視頻系列。

exploring the phonetic diversity across the UK's four nations

探討英國四個國家的語音多樣性。

will focus on sounds characteristic of certain accents

Let's get started by focusing on 5 consonant features

我們先來關注一下5個輔音的特點吧

Rhotic speakers will always pronounce the letter "r" as /r/

羅氏語系的人總是把字母 "r "念成/r/。

Non-rhotic speakers only pronounce the letter "r" as /r/

非霍亂語者只將字母 "r "讀成/r/。

Here, there are no /r/ sounds in the second word

在這裡，第二個詞中沒有/r/的音。

I was born in the southern part of England

and you'll hear that my accent is non-rhotic

This is a map produced by the University of Cambridge in 2016

這是劍橋大學在2016年製作的地圖。

Orange marks areas where there are more rhotic speakers

橙色標誌著有較多羅生門發言者的區域。

Green where there are more non-rhotic speakers

綠色，其中有更多的非流言蜚語者

And yellow where there is roughly an equal mix of both

而黃色的地方，兩者的混合度大致相同。

It's true that we find rhotic speakers in Scotland

蘇格蘭確實有講羅生門語的人。

but we also find non-rhotic speakers there too

但我們也發現非羅生門發言者也在那裡。

Linguists have documented non-rhotic speakers in Scotland

語言學家已經記錄了蘇格蘭的非羅生門語者

the situation has changed significantly in recent times

When a survey was conducted in the 1950s,

but nowadays there are far fewer rhotic speakers here

但現在這裡講羅生門的人少多了

then expect to hear both rhotic and non-rhotic speech

那就有望同時聽到羅音和非羅音的聲音了

You may have heard of Received Pronunciation – or RP

你可能聽說過 "Received Pronunciation"--或RP。

Different people have different definitions of what RP refers to

不同的人對RP指的是什麼有不同的定義

but for many it describes an old-fashioned English accent

但對很多人來說，它描述的是一種老式的英語口音。

In this video series I'm going to refer to the modern successor of RP

在這個系列視頻中，我將提到RP的現代繼承者。

and you'll find lots of people with this accent

你會發現很多人都有這種口音。

is always pronounced at the start of sentences

在其他口音中，這個音會被去掉

and people in Scotland and Northern Ireland

但在英格蘭和威爾士，許多發言者

H-droppers may not be consistent in their H-dropping

For example, somebody may pronounce a word with H

例如，有人可能會把一個單詞的發音讀成 H

and later pronounce the same word without the H

而後將同一單詞讀成不含H的音。

when the vocal folds inside the larynx (or voice box)

firmly come together for a short period of time

to replace a [t] sound at the end of a word

Glottal stops are also used to replace a [t] sound between vowels

喉停也用於替換元音之間的[t]音。

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