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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- English is a stress-timed language. Stressed syllables (in words and sentences) always have around the same amount of time between them.
- This is especially true in English poetry and nursery rhymes.
- p. 60 exercise 3 - With your partner, count the number of stressed syllables in each line, and mark them with an accent.
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- p. 61 exercise 4 - Why does B make sense but A doesn’t?
- - B includes the content words, A includes the structure words.
- Content words give the main information.
- Structure words link the content words and give grammatical information.
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- Content words are stressed, structure words are unstressed.
- (Remember, there are three “parts” of stress in English: higher, longer, louder. They are important in that order.)
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- In the paragraph at the bottom of p. 61, underline all the content words.
- When you listen to English, you hear some words more clearly than others. Speakers of English usually stress words that carry the basic meaning of the sentence, and they usually weaken words that have less meaning. By making a clear contrast between stressed and unstressed words, speakers ensure that the more important words stand out.
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- What kinds of words (parts of speech) are usually content words?
- nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, negatives, interrogatives (wh- words), interjections
- What kinds are structure words?
- prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, articles, auxiliary verbs
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- - Why is “When” not underlined above, even though I said question words are content words?
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