元音字a在英语中的读音规则总结如下。
一、元音字母 a 在重读音节中的读音
a 在开音节中 [ei] name plane Jane baby cake
在闭音节中 [?] bag dad hat map black back
二、元音字母在非重读音节中的读音
元音字母 a [? ] China another woman breakfast
[i] orange comrade village cabbage
三、元音字母在重读音节中的特殊读音
a在[w]音后面 [?] want what watch wash quality
a在f， n， sk， ph， sp， ss， st， th，前 [ɑ:] after plant graph ask grasp glass fast father
四、-r音节元音字组在重读音节中的读音
ar [ɑ:] car farm dark sharpener
在[w]音后面[?:] warm quarter towards
五、-re音节元音字组在重读音节中的读音
are [ε? ] care dare hare
六、元音字组在重读音节中的读音
ai/ay [ei] afraid rain wait day play
air [ε? ] air hair chair pair repair
al [?:] small ball talk wall all
[?:l] always also salt almost
al在f m前 [ɑ: ] half calm
au/aw [?:] autumn daughter draw
ea [i:] teach easy cheap please
[e] heavy bread sweater weather
[ei] break great
ear [i?] hear dear near clear year
[ε?] bear pear wear swear
[? :] earth learn early
