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Zoltán Király Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Words with two stress lose one stress in sentence?
Hi, here is a sentence: I appreciate it.
The word "appreciate" phonetically looks like: [?'pri ?i?e?t]. It has primary stress on "pri" and secondary stress on "eit"
I have an older British textbook and it says that words with two stress lose one stress in a sentence. I study American English but I think the same rule applies.
What do you think about my version?
[a?(y)?'pri ?i(y)e?t_?t]
I dropped the secondary stress and added the glide because of the two vowels. Lisa Mojsin's "Mastering the American Accent" book says that the glide can be applied to individual words too, not just between words.
The word "appreciate" phonetically looks like: [?'pri ?i?e?t]. It has primary stress on "pri" and secondary stress on "eit"
I have an older British textbook and it says that words with two stress lose one stress in a sentence. I study American English but I think the same rule applies.
What do you think about my version?
[a?(y)?'pri ?i(y)e?t_?t]
I dropped the secondary stress and added the glide because of the two vowels. Lisa Mojsin's "Mastering the American Accent" book says that the glide can be applied to individual words too, not just between words.
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Zoltán Király I have an older British textbook and it says that words with two stress lose one stress in a sentence. If this is meant as a blanket statement then I don't agree with it at all. As a particular example, in "It's something I appreciate", I say "appreciate" exactly as if it were an isolated word.
- Zoltán Király I have an older British textbook and it says that words with two stress lose one stress in a sentence.
- If this is meant as a blanket statement then I don't agree with it at all.
- As a particular example, in "It's something I appreciate", I say "appreciate" exactly as if it were an isolated word.
- t] In the specific case of "I appreciate it", I think the secondary stress on "ate" is typically diminished or lost, compared to its pronunciation as an isolated word.
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Zoltán KirályI have an older British textbook and it says that words with two stress lose one stress in a sentence.If this is meant as a blanket statement then I don't agree with it at all. As a particular example, in "It's something I appreciate", I say "appreciate" exactly as if it were an isolated word.
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