母音字a在英語中的讀音規則總結如下。

一、母音字母 a 在重讀音節中的讀音

a 在開音節中 [ei] name plane Jane baby cake

在閉音節中 [æ] bag dad hat map black back

二、母音字母在非重讀音節中的讀音

母音字母 a [ə ] China another woman breakfast

[i] orange comrade village cabbage

三、母音字母在重讀音節中的特殊讀音

a在[w]音後面 [ɔ] 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音節母音字組在重讀音節中的讀音

ar [ɑ:] car farm dark sharpener

在[w]音後面[ɔ:] warm quarter towards

五、-re音節母音字組在重讀音節中的讀音

are [εə ] care dare hare

六、母音字組在重讀音節中的讀音

ai/ay [ei] afraid rain wait day play

air [εə ] air hair chair pair repair

al [ɔ:] small ball talk wall all

[ɔ:l] always also salt almost

al在f m前 [ɑ: ] half calm

au/aw [ɔ:] autumn daughter draw

ea [i:] teach easy cheap please

[e] heavy bread sweater weather

[ei] break great

ear [iə] hear dear near clear year

[εə] bear pear wear swear

[ə :] earth learn early