划分音节举例:
>>>>>abundant
a-bun-dant
contented
con-tent-edestablish
es-tab-lishexpensive
ex-pen-sivedependent
de-pen-dentintensive
in-ten-sive
ComplimentArtistic
Com-pli-mentAr-tis-ticDepartmentdisgusting
De-part-mentdis-gust-ingForgetful
For-get-ful
fantastic
fan-tas-tic
Performanceimpression
Per-for-manceim-pres-sionIncredible
In-cred-i-ble
sensitive
sen-si-tive
TendernessWilderness
Ten-der-nessWil-der-ness
BasicSyllable(音节)Rules(基本音节划分原则)
1.TofindthenumberofSyllable(音节)s:---countthevowels(元音)intheword,
---subtractanysilentvowels(元音),(likethesilent"e"attheendofawordorthesecondvowelwhentwovowels(元音)atogetherinaSyllable(音节)---subtractonevowelfromeverydiphthong,(diphthongs(双元音)onlycountasonevowelsound.
---thenumberofvowels(元音)soundsleftisthesameasthenumberofSyllable(音节)s.
ThenumberofSyllable(音节)sthatyouhearwhenyoupronounceawordisthesameasthenumberofvowels(元音)soundsheard.Forexample:
Theword"came"has2vowels(元音),butthe"e"issilent,leavingonevowelsoundandoneSyllable(音节).
Theword"outside"has4vowels(元音),butthe"e"issilentandthe"ou"isadiphthongwhichcountsasonlyonesound,sothiswordhasonlytwovowels(元音)soundsandtherefore,twoSyllable(音节)s.
2.Dividebetweentwomiddleconsonants(辅音).
Splitupwordsthathavetwomiddleconsonants(辅音).Forexample:
hap/pen,bas/ket,let/ter,sup/per,din/ner,andDen/nis.Theonlyexceptionsaretheconsonantdigraphs.Neversplitupconsonantdigraphsastheyreallyrepresentonlyonesound.Theexceptionsare"th","sh","ph","th","ch",and"wh".
3.Usuallydividebeforeasinglemiddleconsonant.
WhenthereisonlyoneSyllable(音节),youusuallydivideinfrontofit,asin:"o/pen","i/tem","e/vil",and"re/port".TheonlyexceptionsarethosetimeswhenthefirstSyllable(音节)hasanobviousshortsound,asin"cab/in".
4.Dividebeforetheconsonantbeforean"-le"Syllable(音节).
Whenyouhaveawordthathastheold-stylespellinginwhichthe"-le"soundslike"-el",dividebeforetheconsonantbeforethe"-le".Forexample:"a/ble","fum/ble","rub/ble""mum/ble"and"this/tle".Theonlyexceptiontothisare"ckle"wordslike"tick/le".
5.Divideoffanycompoundwords(组合词),prefixes(前缀),suffixes(后缀)androots(词根)whichhavevowelsounds.
Splitoffthepartsofcompoundwordslike"sports/car"and"house/boat".Divideoffprefixes(前缀)suchat"un/happy","pre/paid",or"re/write".Alsodivideoffsuffixes(后缀)asinthewords"farm/er","teach/er","hope/less"and"care/ful".Intheword"stop/ping",thesuffix