American Accent Training ?筆記 03

Syllable stress

1 in spoken English ,if you stress the wrong syllable , you can totally lose the meaning of a word.

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2 each syllable will count as one musical note

Remember that words that end in a vowel or a voiced consonant will be longer than ones ending in an unvoiced consonant

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Complex intonation

1 one way of approaching sentence intonation is not to build each sentence from scratch .Instead ,use patterns ,with each pattern similar to a mathematical formula.

Instead in numbers ,however, plug in words

2 at times ,what appears to be a single syllable word will have a longer sound to it

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Two-word phrases

Descriptive phrases

1 Nouns are heavier than adjectives ;they carry the weight of the new information

2 an adjective and a noun combination is called a descriptive phrase, and in the absence of contrast or other secondary changes ,the stress will always fall naturally on the noun.

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Set phrases

1 When you have a two-word phrase ,you have to either stress on the first word ,or on the second word.

2 If you stress both or neither ,it is not clear what you are trying to say.

3 Read it over ,think about it ,then listen ,try it out ,listen some more ,and try it out again

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Words like guy man kid lady people are de facto pronouns in an anthropocentric.