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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- p. 51 exercise 5A - Put the words in the correct column based on their stress patterns.
- oOo: production correction objection prediction
- administration nominalization
- ooOo: democratic diplomatic automatic energetic
- Antarctic music melodramatic electric capitalistic
- Ooo: practical chemical physical critical
- electrical mathematical political
- oOoo: majority authority humidity priority
- multifunctionality locality
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- Many suffixies beginning with ‘i’ (ion, ic, ical, ity, ian, ial) move the stress to the syllable directly before the suffix)
- There are exceptions: television, Catholic
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- -ography/-ographer and -ology/-ologer/-ologist have the stress on the first ‘o’
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- Many suffixes from French have the stress on the final syllable:
- trainee, employee, volunteer, pioneer, Lebanese, Japanese, technique, antique
- There are also exceptions here: committee, Portuguese
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- p. 56 exercise 6 - Practice saying the phrases with your partner, and mark the primary stress.
- Also remember how stress works in compound nouns for 6 and 7.
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- Where is the primary stress in these longer words?
- circumlocution - oooOo
- conviviality - oooOoo (convivial - oOoo)
- cupidity - oOoo
- equanimity - ooOoo
- idiosyncratic - ooooOo
- parsimonious - ooOoo (parsimony - Oooo)
- perspicacious - ooOo
- sesquipedalian - oooOo
- antidisestablishmentarianism (-ism doesn’t change the stress, and -ian moves the stress to the previous syllable)
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