2018-10-16 Pronunciation: verb stress

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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What are the differences in pronunciation between -teen numbers and -ty numbers?
- The ending is one difference (-teen numbers end with /n/)
- The stress is on “-teen” for those numbers, and it’s on the first part for -ty numbers.
- The ‘t’ in the -ty numbers is often flapped and sounds similar to ‘d’ (except in 50 and 60)
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The stress in “It’s fifty dollars” and “It’s fifteen dollars” is not very different.
- “teen” numbers in the middle of a sentence (especially before another stressed syllable) often have the primary stress moved to the first syllable.
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p. 43 exercise 5 - Say sentence (a) or (b), your partner responds with the correct response.
Then switch roles.
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exercise 6 - Discuss with your group which answer you think is correct in each statement.
Listen and check
1 17%
2 1918
3 30%
4 50%
5 50%
6 13th
7 17
8 18%
9 50%
10 18%
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Verbs
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Most two-syllable verbs have the stress on the second syllable, especially if the verb is a prefix plus a root.
p. 44 exercise 7A - With your partner, write three more words with each prefix (you can use the roots from the first list).
con-: conceive, conclude, consent, content, confine, conserve, consume
	(comport - the spelling changes to “com” before P, B, and M)
de-: deduce, detain, defend, define, deserve
pre-: preclude, present, pretend, predict, presume
re-: reduce, report, retain, resent, refine, reserve, resume, revert
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Can any of the above words be nouns? How are the nouns pronounced.
present
consent
report
content
confines
comport
record
reserve
- Much of the time, the stress moves to the first syllable for nouns.
(Sometimes it doesn’t change, and both have stress on the second syllable (report, reserve) or both have stress on the first syllable (profit, answer).)
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Phrasal verbs usually have the stress on the second word (the particle).
Nouns from those verbs usually have the stress on the first syllable (and are written together).
print out / printout
taked off / takeoff
make up / make-up
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p. 45-46 exercise 8 - With your partner, say word (a) or (b), and your partner uses it in a sentence.