Exercise 8-5: Tense and Lax Vowel Exercise CD 4Track 19 录音下载
Let's practice tense and lax vowels in context. The intonation is marked for you. When in doubt, try to leave out the lax vowel rather than run the risk of overpronouncing it: l'p in place of lip, so it doesn't sound like leap. Repeat:
Tense Lax
1. eat it I eat it.
2. beat bit The beat is a bit strong.
3. keys kiss Give me a kiss for the keys.
4. cheek chick The chick's cheek is soft.
5. deed did He did the deed.
6. feet fit These shoes fit my feet.
7. feel fill Do you feel that we should fill it?
8. green grin The Martian's grin was green.
9. heat hit Last summer, the heat hit hard.
10. heel hill Put your heel on the hill.
11. jeep Jill Jill's jeep is here.
12. creep crypt Let's creep near the crypt.
13. leap lip He bumped his lip when he leaped.
14. meal mill She had a meal at the mill.
15. neat knit He can knit neatly.
16. peel pill Don't peel that pill!
17. reed rid Get rid of the reed.
18. seek sick We seek the sixth sick sheik's sheep.
19. sheep ship There are sheep on the ship.
20. sleep slip The girl sleeps in a slip.
21. steal still He still steals.
22. Streep strip Meryl Streep is in a comic strip.
23. team Tim Tim is on the team.
24. these this These are better than this one.
25. thief thing The thief took my thing.
26. weep whip Who weeps from the whips?
In the time you have taken to reach this point in the program, you will have made a lot of decisions about your own individual speech style. Pronunciation of reduced sounds is more subjective and depends on how quickly you speak, how you prefer to express yourself, the range of your intonation, how much you want to reduce certain vowels, and so on.
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