2018-08-29 Pronunciation: longer words

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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p. 54 exercise 5 - Put the words from the box into the correct category based on stress pattern
o O o - production, correction, objection, prediction
o o O o - democratic, automatic, diplomatic, energetic, mathematics, statistics
O o o - practical, critical, chemical, physical
o O o o - majority, authority, humidity, priority
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The stress also moves to the syllable before “graphy” and “logy” (or the first ‘o’ in “ography” and “ology”).
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Many suffixes from French move the stress to the last syllable
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There are also exceptions: politics, Catholic, committee, Portuguese, television
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p. 56 - mark the primary stress in each word and practice saying the phrases to your partner
What is the adjective for “pharmacology”? - pharmacological
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Can you predict the primary stress in these longer words?
circumlocution - oooOo
conviviality - oooOoo
cupidity - oOoo
equanimity - ooOoo
idiosyncratic - ooooOo
parsimonious - ooOoo
perspicacious - ooOo
sesquipedalian - oooOoo
polysyllabic - oooOo
antidisestablishmentarianism
	(“ism” doesn’t move the stress, and “ian” moves the stress to the previous syllable)
- Once you know the primary stress, most of the other syllables have alternating strong and weak stress.
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p. 57 - Stand up and ask your partners yes/no questions to find names to complete the table, then ask the follow-up question for more information.

“How do you identify an extroverted mathematician?”
“They look at your shoes when they talk to you.”