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ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
WARM-UP BINGO GAME
1- Stress and Unstress. Overview 2-Reductions and chunks of speech.
Stress and Unstress
STRESS In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word. the term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables.
Understanding syllables to understand words stress, it helps to understand syllables. Every word is made from syllables. each word has one,two,three or more syllables. Number of syllables Word Dog Dog 1 Quiet Qui-et 2 Expensive Ex-pen-sive 3 Interesting In- ter-est-ing 4 Unexceptional Un-ex-cep-tion-al 5
Unstress An unstressed syllable is a part of the word that you don't emphasize or accent.
As mentioned earlier, an unstressed syllable is a syllable that is not emphasized in the word. In poly-syllabic words, except the stressed syllable, all remaining syllables of certain words are unstressed. But we can’t stress mono-syllabic words. We can only stress a syllable when it is more than one. A word has one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables. So, let’s take a look at some unstressed syllable words. Example mono-syllabic words bit |bɪt| |blænd| |tʃiːz| |bʊk| |tʃɜːrtʃ| poly-syllabic words bland cheese book church baNAna |bəˈnænə|
Reductions and chunks of speech.
WHAT ARE A CHUNKS IN ENGLISH?
Chunks are groups of words that can be found together in language. They can be words that always go together, such as fixed collocations, or that commonly do, such as certain grammatical structures that follow rules.
EXAMPLES What you see in print 1-what do you WANT? 2-WHAT do you want? 3-Give it a TRY? 4-take a CHANCE 5-Give me a BREAK 6-Are you SURE? What you hear 1- Whad'yaWANT? 2-WHAd'yawant? 3-gividaTRY 4-takaCHANCE 5-gimme aBREAK 6-are yaSURE?
Reductions Reductions or reduced speech is when an English speaker shortens or eliminates particular sounds.
Time to practice STRESS AND UNSTRESS REDUCTIONS
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PRODUCTION Draw a chart in your notebook. -Write 5 words with one syllable -5 words with two syllables, -5 words with three syllables, and - 5 words with four syllables and the transcription.