2018-01-08 Pronunciation: stress with suffixes

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Handout p. 138-9 part 5 A - mark the primary (and possibly secondary) stress in each word (We’ll check on Monday if there’s no school tomorrow.)
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suffix: a part added to the end of a word, which usually changes the part of speech
(The most common parts of speech which use suffixes are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.)
Suffixes sometimes change the pronunciation of a word, but not always.
pronounce -> pronunciation
curious -> curiosity
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productivity
activity
reality
creativity
personality
liability
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p. 142 part 1 - With your partner, add two words for each pattern. What is the rule for that suffix?
-ion: conversation, communication, activation, manipulation, nation, action, production
-ic(s): symphonic, economic(s), politics, electronics, geometric, physics, statistics, mathematics
-ical: critical, political, statistical, mathematical
-ous: famous, curious, furious, tremendous, anonymous, unanimous, enormous
-graphy: geography, typography, stratigraphy, calligraphy
-logy: psychology, zoology, anthropology, primatology,
-ian: musician, politician, electrician, statistician, mathematician, Christian, Asian, Brazilian
-ity: activity, creativity, curiosity
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When these suffixes are added to a word, the primary stress (usually) moves to the syllable before the suffix.
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https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ - You can type something like “*tion” in the search box and see the most common (American) English words that end with those letters.
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electroencephalography
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What happens to vowels when we take away the stress?
photəgraph / phətogrəphy
- The primary and secondary stress get “full” vowel sounds, unstressed syllables get reduced.
	(Usually to [ə], the schwa.)
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Homework: p. 53 - Exercises 3 and 4 parts A - draw a line through all the schwa sounds (including the ones that aren’t written as ‘ə’ in exercise 3).