2018-01-03 Pronunciation: secondary stress

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Words with three or more syllables usually have (at least) one secondary stress
engineer, volunteer - The final syllable has the main stress and the first syllable has secondary stress.
p. 137 part 1
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Unstressed syllables are often reduced to a schwa or short-i sound, but sometimes they are dropped completely (especially in informal speech).
p. 137 part 3
1 interesting -> int’resting
  laboratory -> lab’ratory (AmEng) or laborat’ry (BrEng)
With your partner, decide which sound you think is usually dropped in casual American speech.
2 sep’rate
3 fav’rite
4 fed’ral
5 mis’rable
6 diff’rent
7 practic’lly (This is common for most -ically words.)
8 veg’table
9 gen’ral
10 ev’ning
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comfortable -> comf’rtable -> comf’terble (This is called metathesis.)
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p. 138 part 3 B - Write the number of syllables each phrase should have.
1 a 5
  b 4
2 a 5
  b 5
3 a 5 (maybe 4.5)
  b 4
4 a 7
  b 6
5 a 6
  b 5
6 a 4
  b 3
7 a 6
  b 7
Listen and choose which one you hear.
1 a
2 b
3 b
4 a
5 a
6 b
7 b
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We sometimes “move” the primary stress (sometimes by switching it with secondary) to avoid having two strong stresses together.
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Homework: Handout p. 138-9 part 5 A - mark the primary (and possibly secondary) stress in each word (We’ll check on Monday if there’s no school tomorrow.)