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1、AmericanandBritishEnglishpronunciationdifferencesDifferencesin pronunciation between AmericanEnglish (AmE)and BritishEnglish (BrE)canbedividedinto:·differencesin accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differencesbetweenGeneralAmericanandRec
2、eivedPronunciation forthestandardaccentsintheUnitedStatesandBritain;forinformationaboutotheraccentsseeregionalaccentsofEnglishspeakers.·differencesinthepronunciationofindividualwordsinthe lexicon (i.e.phoneme distribution).Inthisarticle,transcriptionsus
3、eReceivedPronunciation(RP)torepresentBrEandGeneralAmerican(GAm)andtorepresentAmE.Inthefollowingdiscussion·superscript A2 afterawordindicatesthattheBrEpronunciationofthewordisacommonvariantinAmE.·superscript B2 afterawordindicatesthattheAmEpronunciationo
4、fthewordisacommonvariantinBrE.·superscript A1 afterawordindicatesthatthepronunciationgivenasBrEisalsothemostcommonvariantinAmE.·superscript B1 afterawordindicatesthatthepronunciationgivenasAmEisalsothemostcommonvariantinBrE.Contents [hide] ·1 Stresso1.
5、1 Frenchstresso1.2 Verbsendingin –ateo1.3 Miscellaneousstress·2 Affixeso2.1 -ary,-ery,-ory,-mony,-bury,-berryo2.2 -ileo2.3 -ine·3 Weakforms·4 Miscellaneouspronunciationdifferenceso4.1 Singledifferenceso4.2 Multipledifferences·5 Notes·6 ReferencesStress[
6、edit]Subscript a or b meansthattherelevantunstressedvowelisalso reducedto /ə/ or /ɨ/ inAmEorBrE,respectively.Frenchstress[edit]Formany loanwords fromFrenchwhereAmEhaskepttheoriginalFrenchfinal-syllablestress,BrEstressesanearliersyllable.Frenchloanworsth
7、atdiffersinstressonlyarelistedbelow.BrEAmEwordswithrelevantsyllablestressedineachdialect1stlastballetA2,[1] barragea,[nb1][2] batona,[3] bereta,[4] bideta,[5] blasé,[6] brevetabA2,[7] brochurebB2*[nb2],[8] buffeta,[nb3][9]caféA2[citationneeded],[10] caf
8、feineA2,[11] canardaB2,[12] chagrina,[13] chaletA2,[14] chauffeurAB2,[15] chiffon,[16] clichéB2[citationneeded],[17]coupé,[18] croissanta,[19] debrisaB2[citationneeded][nb4],[20] debut,[21] décor,[22] detailaA2,[23] détenteB1,[24
