2020-03-10 Pronuncation: suffixes moving stress

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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To see if a suffix changes the stress, put it on words with different stress patterns:
employ - verb with stress on the second syllable
manage - verb with stress on the first syllable

-er: employer, manager - “er” doesn’t change the stress
-ment: employment, management - “ment” doesn’t change the stress
-able: employable, manageable - “able” doesn’t change the stress

Typically, if a suffix moves the stress, it moves it later in the word (toward or to the suffix)
nation - noun with stress on the first syllable

national - “al” doesn’t move stress (*but it does change the pronuncation of the ‘a’)
nationality - “ity” moves the stress to the syllable before it
	- This also tells you where the stress should be in an unfamiliar word ending in “ity”.
	“echogenicity”

specify -> specific - “ic” moves the stress to the syllable before it
	(specificity)
specification -> “ion” moves the stress to the syllabe before it
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p. 51 exercise 1B - Without listening, put a circle where you think the primary stress is in each word.
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Review: What do we change about the pronunciation when we change the stress?
	ex: desert / dessert
- higher tone (this is the most important and noticeable change)
- longer vowel
- louder voice (this is the least important change)
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Reduced vowels (schwa)
photograph -> photography (The stressed syllable is before the “graphy” ending.)
- In both words, the unstressed ‘o’ is pronounced like a schwa /ə/

PHO tə graph / phə TO grəph y

The most common vowel sound in English is the schwa, because most vowels get pronounced like this when they don’t have stress. (/o/ and /i/ at the end of a word are exceptions)

potato = pə ta to
misogyny = mə so gə ny
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p. 53 exercise 3A - listen and repeat the words
exercise 4A - circle the vowels that are pronounced as schwa
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Homework: p. 54 exercise 5 - put the words from the box in the correct column based on stress