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Mosja Posted 7 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Are these sentences stressed correctly?

1. I ?don't know' how to solve it.

2. I had been ?speaking Eng'lish ?all day' and I ?don't feel' like my ?spoken Eng'lish is improved because no' one? would ?ever 'correct mistakes' for ?me.

3. You ?sound like' me (falling intonation)

  

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Please explain your notation. Stress symbols ' (primary) and ? (secondary) and are normally placed before the stressed syllable, yet you often put them at the ends of words.

  • Please explain your notation.
  • Stress symbols ' (primary) and ?
  • (secondary) and are normally placed before the stressed syllable, yet you often put them at the ends of words.
  • Also, what (if any) difference is there between what you are trying to show with stress symbols and what you are trying to show with bold text?
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Please explain your notation. Stress symbols ' (primary) and ? (secondary) and are normally placed before the stressed syllable, yet you often put them at the ends of words. Also, what (if any) difference is there between what you are trying to show with stress symbols and what you are trying to show with bold text?

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mosja'correct

This should be cor'rect.

CJ

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