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    This document discusses stress and vowel sounds in English. It covers topics like: - Stress can occur on loudness, pitch, length, and vowel quality. - English has both strong vowels (like KIT and FOOT) and weak vowels (like SCHWA). - Stress patterns differ between languages like Icelandic English and British/American English. - Unstressed syllables mainly use weak vowels like SCHWA, while stressed syllables use strong vowels. - Vowels in words can tense or change quality before certain consonants or in certain positions. - Some consonants like M, N, and L can act as syllable nuclei in some words.

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    This document discusses stress and vowel sounds in English. It covers topics like: - Stress can occur on loudness, pitch, length, and vowel quality. - English has both strong vowels (like KIT and FOOT) and weak vowels (like SCHWA). - Stress patterns differ between languages like Icelandic English and British/American English. - Unstressed syllables mainly use weak vowels like SCHWA, while stressed syllables use strong vowels. - Vowels in words can tense or change quality before certain consonants or in certain positions. - Some consonants like M, N, and L can act as syllable nuclei in some words.

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    Banana: Stress

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    This document discusses stress and vowel sounds in English. It covers topics like: - Stress can occur on loudness, pitch, length, and vowel quality. - English has both strong vowels (like KIT and FOOT) and weak vowels (like SCHWA). - Stress patterns differ between languages like Icelandic English and British/American English. - Unstressed syllables mainly use weak vowels like SCHWA, while stressed syllables use strong vowels. - Vowels in words can tense or change quality before certain consonants or in certain positions. - Some consonants like M, N, and L can act as syllable nuclei in some words.

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    STRESS

    banana

    STRESS

    banana

    STRESS goes under many


    names:

    stress
    emphasis
    accent

    STRESS

    loudness
    pitch (frequency)
    length
    vowel quality

    STRESS

    IE
    BE
    AE

    Strong and weak vowels

    Strong and weak vowels

    strong
    vowels

    weak
    vowels

    KIT
    and FOOT
    all
    vowels
    except

    are also strong


    when stressed

    SCHWA
    KIT
    FOOT

    STRESS
    Icelandic English:
    strong vowels only (= no schwa)
    stress on first syllable only

    British and American English:


    both strong and weak vowels
    variable stress

    STRESS
    banana
    reverse
    accuse
    photography
    correct
    particular
    arrange

    Banbury
    redolent
    accurate
    photograph
    corridor
    particle
    arrogant

    banana

    Banbury

    reverse

    redolent

    accuse

    accurate

    photography

    photograph

    correct

    corridor

    particular

    particle

    arrange

    arrogant

    stressed
    syllables
    all vowels except

    unstressed
    syllables
    mainly:

    SCHWA
    KIT
    FOOT
    (all other vowels
    can occur....)

    unstressed syllables
    mainly:

    SCHWA
    KIT
    FOOT

    (all other vowels


    can occur....)

    In any single word, which of these


    possibilities occurs?

    Compare:

    arrive

    arrow

    obey

    opera

    return

    re-play

    believe
    today

    two days

    decide

    to know

    wanted

    you know

    kisses

    accurate

    attack

    occur

    purpose

    decide

    to know

    wanted

    you know

    kisses

    accurate

    attack

    occur

    purpose

    Tensing of KIT
    happy
    FLEECE
    KIT
    TENSED KIT

    Tensing of KIT
    Finally
    happy
    copy
    Before vowels
    react
    preoccupied
    hurrying

    Tensing of FOOT
    to ask
    GOOSE
    FOOT
    TENSED FOOT

    Tensing of FOOT
    Before vowels
    intuition
    to ask
    you always ask

    Tensing of KIT and FOOT


    See Neutralization in LPD

    syllabic consonants

    button
    pattern
    bottle
    table

    Click for another Bush story (with a phonetic


    twist...)

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