這些都是 App 裡的真實音訊，請開啟聲音。
Hear both words in 9 voices
Each row is one speaker saying both words. Play one, then the other, and switch to slow when the difference hides.
- American woman, younger
- American man, younger
- American man, older
- British woman, younger
- British woman, older
- British man, younger
- British man, older
- Australian woman
- Australian man
What's different
Japanese often writes æ after k as キャ, as in cat, camp and cap, because the vowel is made so far forward that the k seems to slide into it through a quick y. Cup has no such slide: its k leads straight into a short, central "uh".
Both words end in a quick p, so the vowel is nearly all you get, and æ is the longer of the two. In British voices both vowels are more open and closer together, so listen for brightness rather than for the kya: cap is front and bright, cup sits darker in the middle of the mouth.
研究： Lambacher et al. 2002 · Lambacher et al. 2005 · Nishi & Kewley-Port 2007
æ（hat）寬而明亮，ʌ（hut）短而放鬆。
More word pairs with these sounds
- hang · hung
- staff · stuff
- crash · crush
- fan · fun
- track · truck
- sang · sung
- ran · run
- lack · luck
- ankle · uncle
- batter · butter
This collection is free in the app
In the TellApart app, all 18 pairs in this collection are free to practice, with no purchase.
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