STRESS

Syllables, stress,
intonation
Syllables
• Fast

• Person

• Beautiful

• Information

How many syllables of these words?

Syllables
Syllables
• Breakfast

• Banana

• Tomorrow

• University

How many syllables do they have?

Syllables
Stress
• if it has only one syllables we don’t think about stress
Fast
like
cat
But if it has more than one it might always have stress.

Banana
Stress
• There are three things to pronoun the stress correctly.
1. The stressed syllable should be louder
2. The stressed syllable should be a little higher.
3. The stressed syllable should be a little longer in time
stress

•Person

•Beautiful

•Information
stress

Breakfast

Banana

Tomorrow

university
stress
stress
• How can you know if you don’t have dictionary?
1. Nouns that have two-syllable words.

Picture Picture
Minute Minute
Money Money
Doctor Doctor
Water Water
stress

• Happy • Happy

• Yellow • Yellow

• Useful • Useful

• Formal • Formal
stress
• Verb that have two-syllable words

Decide Decide

Forget Forget

Explain Explain

Arrive Arrive
Repeat Repeat
stress
• Exceptions

• Hotel

• Happen

• Exam

• Finish
stress
• For the longer words (three syllable). The stress can be in
the beginning in the middle or at the end.
• Anyone
• Beautiful
• Possible
Computer
Tomorrow
Expensive
Afternoon
Employee
Japanese
stress
• For the four syllable the stress always in the middle

• Information

• Communicate

• Photographer
stress
• Stress in longer words. If the word ends –tion,-sion -cian,
or ic then the stress is always on the second last syllable.

• Information

• Discussion

• Politician អ្នកនយោបាយ

• Economic យេដ្ឋកិច្ច
stress

• Situation

• Revision ការពិនិត្យយ ើងវិញ

• Electrician ជាងអ្គ្គីេនី

• Interruption ការរំខាន
stress

• Dramatic​​ោ៉ា ងខាលងាំ

• Atlantic​

• Scientific វិទ្យាសាស្តេរ
stress
• If the word ends in letter –y and has three or more syllable
is two syllables before the last one.

Biology​
Chemistry
Luckily​
Pregnancy មានផ្ទៃយ ោះ
Activity
Robbery ប្លន់
Possibility លទ្យធភាព
stress
• If the word ends in letter –y and has three or more syllable
is two syllables before the last one.

Biology
Chemistry
Luckily
Pregnancy
Activity
Robbery
possibility
stress
• For the root words

• Comfort ផាេុកភាព

• Comfortable​​មានផាេុកភាព

• Discomfort ភាពមិនស្េួល

• Uncomfortable មិនស្េួល

• Comfortably មានផាេុកភាព
stress
• For the root words​in longer words

• Photograph – photography– Photographic

• Economy – economic

• Educate – education
Intonation
Intonation