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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Why is this?
0 I saw this explanation from the Collins/Cobuild dictionary. P/S tell me why the underlined word get only stressed the letters " 00 NA, 00 " not the whole word "banana." 02 br
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00 Sentence stress is an accent on certain words w/in a sentence. Function words, such as articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs are not stressed. 02 br
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00 ex) I WANT a 01 u 00 ba 00 NA 00 na 02 u 02 br
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00 The CAR is MOVING. 0-
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00 Sentence stress is an accent on certain words w/in a sentence. Function words, such as articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs are not stressed. 02 br
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00 ex) I WANT a 01 u 00 ba 00 NA 00 na 02 u 02 br
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00 The CAR is MOVING. 0-
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02 br 02 br 01 i 00 I want a baNAna 02 i 00 . Sentence stress on NA 02 br 01 i 00 The car is MOving 02 i 00 . Sentence stress on MO 02 br 01 i 00 I want a HAT 02 i 00 .
- 02 br 02 br 01 i 00 I want a baNAna 02 i 00 .
- Sentence stress on NA 02 br 01 i 00 The car is MOving 02 i 00 .
- Sentence stress on MO 02 br 01 i 00 I want a HAT 02 i 00 .
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0 Sentence stress falls on the 01 u 00 stressed syllable 02 u 00 of certain content words in a sentence, not on the whole word (unless the word is monosyllabic). 02 br
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01 i 00 I want a baNAna 02 i 00 . Sentence stress on NA 02 br
01 i 00 The car is MOving 02 i 00 . Sentence stress on MO 02 br
01 i 00 I want
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01 i 00 I want a baNAna 02 i 00 . Sentence stress on NA 02 br
01 i 00 The car is MOving 02 i 00 . Sentence stress on MO 02 br
01 i 00 I want
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0 Thank you. Don't you consider the words "want", "car" and "is" content words and thus, their certain syllables also need be stressed? I thought the content words are those that are essential in conveying their intended meaning and all the words in parenthesis seem to be necessary for the sentences to convey any kinds of meaning. 02 br
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00 I 01 u 00 want 02 u
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00 I 01 u 00 want 02 u
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0 I don't think you understand the concept of sentence stress yet, Believer. Words, either function words or content words, do not 01 b 00 need to 02 b 00 be stressed; they 01 b 00 may 02 b 00 be stressed, depending on what the speaker wishes to communicate. Below, I embolden the sentence stress: 02 br
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01 i 01 b 00 I 02 b 0
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01 i 01 b 00 I 02 b 0
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0 Thank you. 02 br
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00 How do you sound the primary stress in comparison to the secondary stress - louder, longer and/or stronger? In another post, I think you said that the primary stress is the strongest stress and the secondary stress is the not-so-strong stress. Can you explain those differences more clearly? 0-
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00 How do you sound the primary stress in comparison to the secondary stress - louder, longer and/or stronger? In another post, I think you said that the primary stress is the strongest stress and the secondary stress is the not-so-strong stress. Can you explain those differences more clearly? 0-
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