2018-03-05 Pronunciation: stress with suffixes

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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record = noun
record = verb
He’s going to record a new record.
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Remember: stressed syllables in English usually have three differences from unstressed
- length: stressed syllables are usually longer than unstressed syllables
	(stressed vowels are also pronounced more fully and not reduced)
- pitch: stressed syllables are usually higher than unstressed syllables
- volume: stressed syllables are somewhat louder than unstressed syllables
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This week we’ll start with the ways that suffixes change stress.
employ -> employment (-ment doesn’t change the stress of a verb)
specify -> specific -> specificity (-ic and -ity do change the stress)
magnify -> magnificent
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Handout p. 51 - With your partner, decide where the stress should be in each word and write a circle over that syllable.

Some have the stress in the suffix itself:
	-eer, -ology
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https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ - You can type something like “*ic” in the search box to see the most common English words that end with “ic”.
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I have no idea what “electronystagmography” is, but I can figure out how to pronounce it because it ends with “graphy”.
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p. 53
When the stress moves away from a syllable, that syllable is often pronounced as a schwa /ə/.
able -> əbility
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bury, [cities ending with]bury, “berry” - all sound the same
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Homework: p. 53 exercises 3A and 4A - cross out all the vowels that are pronounced as schwa