Word and sentencestress

Which of the following words has the stress on the first syllable

•Biologist•Photographer•Psychiatrist• Secretary

Which word sounds different?

•Debt • Fret • Treat• sweat

Which word sounds different?

•Mother•Bother•Brother•Another

Which word sounds different?

•Hot •Knot•Taught•What

Which word does not rhyme with the others

• Through• Sew• Due• Do

Which 2-syllable word has a different stress pattern from the others?

•a) police•b) mother•c) student•d) money

Which 2-syllable word has a different stress pattern from the others?

• a) career• b) shampoo• c) balloon• d) problem

Which 3-syllable word has a different stress pattern from the others?

• a) cinema• b) Saturday• c) umbrella• d) manager

Which 3-syllable word has a different stress pattern from the others?

• a) potato•b) paragraph• c) computer•d) professor

Which of these adjectives beginning with ‘un’ or ‘in’ has the stress on the final syllable?

• a) informal• b) unhappy• c) unfriendly• d) unemployed

Underline the stressed syllable • Economic• Economy• Democracy• Volunteer• Acquisition• Acquire• Verification• Recognizable• Necessary• Exception

• Contagious• Delicious• Ecological• Relevant• Unfortunately• Accuracy• Category• Comfortable• Literature • Subsequent

In which sentence does the speaker want to tell us that John’s car is not second hand?

• a) John’s bought a new car.• b) John’s bought a new car.• c) John’s bought a new car.• d) John’s bought a new car.

Accurate- Educate- Advocate- Associate- accumulate- adequate- activate- appropriate- complicate- separate

• This is an accurate account of what took place• What complicates matters is that nobody

showed up• That film is not appropriate for children• You cannot appropriate the money of the

government• Charles is an associate member of this

department

Register-Record-Upset-Project-Control- protest- subject- present

• They are conducting a science project• Before the meeting, you have to register first.• The equipment is out of control• A protest was held by the company against

animal testing• This offer is subjected to the approval of the

board

Word Stress

Qualify banana understand

Ooo oOo ooO

SyllabusSubstituteTechnical

EngagementBananaphonetic

UsheretteKangaroounderstand

Key Rules

• Schwa is by nature an unstressed sound, never appears within a stressed syllable

• We can only stress vowels not consonants

Sentence stress

• Isochrony is the idea that a language rhythmically divides time into equal portions. Three types of divisions are postulated:

• the temporal duration between two stressed syllables is equal (stress-timed);

• The duration of every syllable is equal (syllable-timed);

• the duration of every mora is equal (mora-timed).

Sentence stress

• He LIVES in the HOUSE on the CORner

Content words: conveying important information

Function words: hold language togetherTonic syllable: Corner: most important wordLonger, louder, main pitch

• Where did you say John lives?• He lives in the house on the corner• John lives in the block of flats on the corner,

doesn’t he?• No, he lives in the house on the corner

Sentence meaning

I love you (…and I want you to know this)I love you (I don’t love her)I love you (He doesn’t)

Oo Ooo oOo Oooo ooOo

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researcher- gardener-designer

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