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Schoolrox Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

stress and unstressed

Hi, I wanted to know if I did these examples correctly. The topic is on stressed and unstressed parts of words. (I made the parts of the word that I felt were stressed, in capital letters...hope I did this all correctly!)
1. segment: segMENT
2. birthday: birthDAY
3. television: teLEvision

thank you!
  

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1. segment: segMENT (SEG ment) 2. birthday: birthDAY (BIRTH day) 3.

— Cynthia3754

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  • segment: segMENT (SEG ment) 2.
  • birthday: birthDAY (BIRTH day) 3.
  • television: teLEvision (TE levision) Without looking in a dictionary, I have stressed the words as above.
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1. segment: segMENT (SEG ment)
2. birthday: birthDAY (BIRTH day)
3. television: teLEvision (TE levision)

Without looking in a diction
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Bitish English:

SEGment (noun), segMENT (verb)
BIRTHday
teleVISion (primary stress on 'vis', secondary stress on 'tel') or TELevision (primary stress on 'tel', secondary on 'vis')
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Is TELevision more common than teleVISion?

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Both the Longman Pronouncing Dictionary and the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary give the version with the first syllable stressed before the one with the third syllable stressed, suggesting that it is the more common pronunciation.
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Thanks a lot, fivejedjon.
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