Group 8 Stress in Simple Words
Group 8 Stress in Simple Words
Group 8 Stress in Simple Words
What is stress ?
Examples:
“blue” = /BLUUU/
“ten” = /TEHN/
The only exceptions to this rule are a handful of function words like “the”
which are usually unstressed or reduced.
2. Secondary Stress: These are the syllables that are stressed, but not as
much the primary stress, so they are loud and long with a change in pitch,
but not as loud or as long as the syllables that get the primary stress. The
change in pitch on the vowel is not quite as noticeable.
Example:
Example:
It’s the contrast between all these different levels of loudness, duration, and
pitch that creates the rhythm of English.
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If you encourage your students to practice with this in mind, their timing and
rhythm will be more familiar to what the listener expects so speech will be
more easily understood. Also, having some variety in loudness, duration, and
pitch makes a person a more interesting and powerful speaker.
Even if your student still has an accent, that’s fine… accents are definitely not
a bad thing!!! But remember the goal of accent modification or pronunciation
training. We want to eliminate the confusion and frustration that our
students experience when they not easily understood.
3-Nouns:
Nouns require a different rule. If the second syllable
contains a short vowel then stress will usually come on the
first syllable otherwise it will be on the second syllable.
For example: money, design, product, larynx, balloon.
4-Adverbs and prepositions: Adverbs and
prepositions seem to behave like verbs and adjectives.
C - If both the second and third syllables are weak then the
stress falls on the initial syllable e.g. parody.
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2-Nouns+3-Adjectives(same rules of stress)
A - If the final syllable is weak or ends with әu sound then
it is unstressed.
C - If the second and third syllables are both weak then the
first syllable is stressed like: quantity, emperor, cinema,
custody.
Conclusion:
English pronunciation depends on stress to a great deal.
In order to become a powerful communicator of English
we must learn all the rules of stress mentioned earlier.
English is a language that borrowed words from 8000
languages of the world. All rules regarding the stress
patterns of these languages are impossible to learn
however if we learn some basic rules we can improve a lot.
So learning of stress leads us to better communication.