2018-01-02 Pronunciation: syllable stress intro

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Handout p. 39 part 1 A - Listen to the audio and decide which word the speaker says.
1 IV
2 decade
3 desert (the noun for the dry place)
4 one percent
5 two tours
6 corrector
7 homesick
8 written
9 his story
10 fifty
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How many vowels does English have?
“long” vowels:
A	mate, make, say, bait, play, sleigh
E	feet, meet, meat, scene, weird, sieze
I	eye, I, kite, flight, night, price, fly, sky
O	go, row, bone, boat
U	you, use, few, huge, cute, pure, boot, food, zoo
“short” vowels:
A	cat, mat, bat, dad, sad
E	met, bet, said, dead, head
I	mitt, bit, kit, did, hid, quit, gym
O	cot, bot, sod, hot, pot, mom
U	cut, but, hut, mum, dud
other vowels:
/ʊ/	good, would, wood, look
/ə/	(“schwa”) Most unstressed vowels: about, laboratory, America
/ɔ/	caught, bought, awe, Australia
/oɪ/	boy, avoid, toy
/ɑʊ/	round, sound, bough
/ɚ/	were, fur, teacher (This is really its own sound.)
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beat, bit, bet, bat, bot, but, boat, butte, bought, bout
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p. 40 exercise 2A - Mark the stressed syllables in each word (or write o and O to show stress)
1 Oo
2 oO
3 oOo
4 oO
5 Oo
6 Oo
7 oO
8 Oo
9 oOo
10 Oo
11 Oo
12 Oo
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2-syllable nouns often have stress on the first syllable (secret, office, concept)
2-syllable verbs often have stress on the second syllable (provide, relax, present)
compound nouns have stress on the first noun (haircut, daydream)
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Can you think of words with these stress patterns?
Ooo: critical, hamburger, educate, bicycle
ooO: kangaroo (this is the least common 3-syllable pattern)
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A stressed syllable (or word) is usually
- louder
- longer
- higher
(Of these, louder is the least important.)