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English is a stress-timed languageThe English language is often referred to as
stress-timed. This means that stress in a spoken sentence occurs at regular intervals and the
length it takes to say something depends on the number of stressed syllables rather than the
number of syllables itself.
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Most sentences have two types of word: content words function words Content words are the key words of a sentence.
They are the important words that carry the meaning or sense. They are usually stressed.
Function words are articles, prepositions, etc. They are usually unstressed.
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Stress: relative degree of loudness among syllables. There are 3 main levels of stress: primary /´/, secondary /^/, and weak // or unmarked. Stress is phonemic because a change here may change the meaning of a word/sentence.
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The boys didn't have time to finish their homework before the lesson began. Read the sentence the first time pronouncing each word carefully. Read the sentence a second time in natural speech.
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The time between stressed words is always the same.
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How can sentence and word stress help you when persuading?
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Written by Lynn Gallacher, British Council, Spain
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Stress on penultimate syllable Words ending in –ic: GRAPHic, geoGRAPHic,
geoLOGic Words ending in -sion and –tion: teleVIsion,
reveLAtion There are some words native English speakers
don't always "agree" on where to put the stress. For example, some people say teleVIsion and others say TELevision. Another example is: CONtroversy and conTROversy.
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Words ending in -cy, -ty, -phy and –gy: deMOcracy, dependaBIlity, phoTOgraphy,
Words ending in –al: CRItical, geoLOGical
Compound words (words with two parts)
For compound nouns, the stress is on the first part: BLACKbird, GREENhouse
For compound adjectives, the stress is on the second part: bad-TEMpered, old-FASHioned
For compound verbs, the stress is on the second part: to underSTAND, to overFLOW
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Pitch: musical tone, or frequency of vibration of the sound waves, the greater the frequency, the higher the pitch. Pitch depends on the nature of the vocal cords. Men will have a lower quality of pitch than women, and children normally have a higher pitch in English.
“When sentence-stress falls on a word of more than one syllable, it usually falls on the syllable that normally receives word-stress.” (MAEP)
I’ll méet you tomórrow.