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Three factors for the description of English vowels

I. The height of the body of the tongue

highest point of tongue (vertical axis);

II. The front-back position of the tongue

highest point of tongue (horizontal axis);

III. The degree of lip rounding - lip posture


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The height of the body of the tongueThe height of the body of the tongue


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English is a stress timed languageThe English language is often referred to as stress-timed. Stress in a spoken sentence occurs at regularintervals and the time to say something depends on thenumber of stressed syllables rather than the number of

.

1 2 3 41 and 2 and 3 and 41 and a 2 and a 3 and a 41 and then a 2 and then a 3 and then a 4


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A word stress means a prominent syllable

word pattern

tea .cher .

beau .ti.ful . .

un.der. stand . .

con. ti .nue . .


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When a syllable is stressed, it is pronounced

lon er in duration higher in pitchlouder in volume


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Longer teeeeeeeeeeee cher

Highertea

Louder TEA cherAll threecombined

TEEEEEEEEEEE

cher


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Word typeWhere is the

stress?Examples

Two syllables

Nounson the first

syllable

cen terob jectflow er

Verbson the last

syllable

releaseadmit

arrange

Compound

Nouns(N + N)

(Adj. + N)on the first part

desk toppen cil casebook shelf

green house

Adjectives

(Adj. + P.P.) on the last part(the verb part)

well -meanthard -headed

old -fashioned

Verbs(prep. + verb)

under standover look

outper form


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Word type Where is the stress? Examples

Phrasal Verbs on the particleturn off

buckle uphand out

-icthe syllable before the

endin

eco nomicGeo me tricelec trical

Word withaddedending

-tion, -cian, -sion gradu ationcohesion

-phy, -gy, -try, -cy, -fy,-al

the third from the lastsyllable

Pho tographybiology

geometry

-meter Pa rameterTher mo meterbarometer


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Sentence stress is the music of spoken English.Like word stress, sentence stress can help you tounderstand spoken English, especially whenspoken fast.

Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythmor "beat". You remember that word stress isaccent on one syllable within a word . Sentencestress is accent on certain words within a

sentence .


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content words and structure words

Content words are the key words of asentence. They are the important words that

.Structure words are not very important words.They are small, simple words that make thesentence correct grammatically.

If you remove the structure words from asentence, you will probably still understand thesentence.


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SELL CAR GONE FRANCE

SELL my CAR I ve GONE to FRANCE

Will you SELL my CAR because I ve GONE to FRANCE

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Will you SELL my CAR because I ve GONE To FRANCE


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Content words - stressed

Words carrying the meaning Example

main verbs SELL, GIVE, EMPLOY

nouns CAR, MUSIC, MARY

adjectives RED, BIG, INTERESTING

adverbs QUICKLY, LOUDLY, NEVER

negative auxiliaries DON'T, AREN'T, CAN'T

Structure words - unstressed

Words for correct grammar Example

pronouns he, we, they

prepositions on, at, into

articles a, an, the

conjunctions and, but, because

auxiliary verbs do, be, have, can, must


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