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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework (optional): find a suffix that changes a verb to another verb or an adjective to another adjective
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- The word “photography” has a primary stress on “tog” and secondary stress on “y”.
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- p. 51 exercise 1 - Identify the syllable with the primary stress in each word.
- - You should notice that the first three suffixes “move” the primary stress to the syllable just before the suffix, and the last one (“eer”) has the primary stress itself.
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- If you’re having trouble identifying which syllable has the primary stress, try to pronounce it yourself with exaggerated stress on each syllable in turn.
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- There are three main things we do when we pronounce stressed syllables or words:
- 1 The stressed syllable is louder.
- 2 The stressed syllable is longer.
- 3 The stressed syllable is higher.
- - If you only focus on one of these, it should be (3).
- When it’s a syllable in a word, we also give it the full vowel pronunciation. We never reduce the vowel in stressed syllables.
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- schwa
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- The most common reduced vowel sound in English is called the “schwa”, and its symbol is /ə/.
- To make this sound, relax your mouth as much as possible. (It’s the hesitation sound we often write as “uh” in conversations.)
- Unstressed syllables are very often pronounced with /ə/ for the vowel (or /ɚ/ if there’s an ‘r’)
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- photəgraph -> phətogrəphy
- recərd - rəcord
- desərt - dəssert
- produce - prəduce (Even when “duce” is unstressed, we pronounce the /u/ sound, not /ə/.)
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- p. 53 exercise 3 - Repeat the words.
- exercise 4 - With your partner, identify and cross out the syllables pronounced with /ə/
- How many different ways can we spell /ə/?
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