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Robertohidaka Posted 15 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

How to pronounce these words

Hi,

I have a doubt on how to pronounce these

words: scientists, interests. I heard that the final TS is not stressed. is this true?

something like saintiss and interess.

Thanks for your help
  

Top answer

Just to be precise, in English vowels can be stressed but consonants are only stressed in special cases such as extreme anger or some kind of misunderstanding. ) The consonant clusters in words such as 'interests' or 'scientists' are often spoken so quickly that we cannot hear the middle /t/ at all. When we speak carefully, the /t/ sound is only partially pronounced before we move on to the final /s/.

— TeacherJoe

  • Just to be precise, in English vowels can be stressed but consonants are only stressed in special cases such as extreme anger or some kind of misunderstanding.
  • ) The consonant clusters in words such as 'interests' or 'scientists' are often spoken so quickly that we cannot hear the middle /t/ at all.
  • When we speak carefully, the /t/ sound is only partially pronounced before we move on to the final /s/.
  • This also happens when a word ends with a consonant and is followed by a word that begins with a consonant.
  • For example, if we say "the big bird", we start to pronounce the /g/ but quickly move on to the /b/ in 'bird'.
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Just to be precise, in English vowels can be stressed but consonants are only stressed in special cases such as extreme anger or some kind of misunderstanding. ("You are STU - PID!" or "I said fif TEEN, not fif TY!", although even here, the vowels get stronger emphasis.) The consonant clusters in words such as 'interests' or 'scientists' are often spoken so quickly that we cannot hear the middle
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Thanks very much for your help !!
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