Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

important than using word stress, rhythm, and intonation well. More recently, scholars and teachers have begun to look for a mor ...

more than one syllable to students who cope with unfamiliar consonant clusters by inserting extra vowels between them. Similarl ...

Word stress If a word in English has more than one syllable (We call these polysyllabic words), one of the syllables is stressed ...

Primary and secondary stress We know that in every polysyllabic word, one syllable has the main stress, or primary stress. In lo ...

Characteristics of unstressed syllables Unstressed syllables are those that don’t receive any stress at all. They tend to be wea ...

Also, when learning new vocabulary, it’s very important for students to learn stress patterns along with the pronunciation and m ...

These pairs often have very closely related meanings. For example, a ˈpermit is something that perˈmits you to do something. H ...

Stress in compound nouns English has many compound nouns—combinations of two words that together make a new noun, such as newspa ...

ˈhot dog^ (a kind of sausage sandwich) Adjective + Noun Phrases: ˈblack^ ˈboard^ (a board that’s black) ˈwhite^ ˈhouse^ ...

it correctly, and get used to the whole sound of it. They should also pay attention to the stress patterns of commonly used adje ...

However, there actually is a pattern in stress placement in these words. All of them have suffixes such as -ic, -ity, -ify, or - ...

111 8.5 GROUP 2: STRESS THE SECOND SYLLABLE BEFORE THE SUFFIX 8.5 GROUP 2: STRESS THE SECOND SYLLABLE BEFORE THE SUFFIX SUFFIX E ...

Group 3: With some su#xes, we stress the su#x itself. The su#xes in this group have all been borrowed from French, where words t ...

numbers clearly enough to hear that last /n/, especially when the next word starts with /n/ or another sound that blends with th ...

Word stress in other languages Not all languages have word stress, and even in those that do, it may not work the way it does in ...

apply the rules in correctly producing word stress. It works better to help students notice the stress of new words and realize ...

CHAPTER 9 Rhythm Language has rhythm Just as music has rhythm, every language also has its own rhythm—that is, its own pattern o ...

all last the same length of time. Stressed syllables last longer, and unstressed syllables are shorter and quicker. The time bet ...

must be right. Stressed syllables need to last longer, and unstressed syllables need to be short and quick so they don’t compete ...

Content words, on the other hand, are words that have lexical meaning, not grammatical meaning, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives ...