2018-03-06 Pronunciation: stress in longer words

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 53 exercises 3A and 4A - cross out all the vowels that are pronounced as schwa.
1 able, əbiləty
2 majər, məjorəty
3 cəmpete, compətitiən
4 photəgraph, phətogrəphy
5 Canədə, Cənadiən
6 Jəpan, Japənese
1 practəcəl
2 əfficiəl
3 cənclusiən
4 prəfessiən
5 phətogrəphy
6 vəlocəty
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All words that end with “ography” have stress on the ‘o’.
(Words that end with “ograph” have stress on the syllable before the ‘o’.)
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Suffixes that begin with ‘i’ generally move the stress to the syllable before ‘i’.
These are also some of the most common stress-shifting suffixes in English.
p. 54 exercise 5 - Put the words from the box in the correct column. Then add two or three more words with each suffix.
oOo: production, correction, objection, prediction
ooOo: democratic, automatic, diplomatic, energetic
Ooo: practical, chemical, critical, physical
oOoo: majority, authority, humidity, priority
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-ion: information, location, position, application, perfection, population, navigation, reflection
-ic: classic, enthusiastic, characteristic, fantastic, basic, electronic, psychic, demographic
-ical: periodical, musical, technical, practical, ethical, physical, statistical, political
-ity: community, commodity, electricity, minority, responsibility, practicality, technicality, ability
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Can you predict the stress patterns of these words?
circumlocution - ooo0o
conviviality - ooo0oo
cupidity - o0oo
equanimity - oo0oo
idiosyncratic - oooo0o
parsimonious - oo0oo
perspicacious - oo0o
sesquipedalian - ooo0oo
polysyllabic - ooo0o
antidisestablishmentarianism - ooooooo0oooo
	(“ism” doesn’t shift stress, but “ian” follows the usual ‘i’ rule, so the ‘a’ before it gets stress)
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We will talk more about secondary stress, which longer words always have in addition to the main or primary stress.
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p. 56 exercise 6A - Where are the stresses in each word? Practice saying them.
(In compound nouns like “English teacher”, the first word gets stronger stress, so it will have the main primary stress of the phrase. In adjective+noun phrases, each word gets the same stress, so each has its own primary stress.)
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There are exceptions to these (and most) rules of word stress.
politic, Catholic - These have stress on the first syllable, though they are also nouns, so perhaps the rule works for words that are only adjectives.