Lecture 8_More Pactice for (Sentence Stress) _ Corrected.

Phonetics________________2nd Year LMD

Teacher: Mr.Aounali . W

PRACTICE ON SENTENCE STRESS PATTERNS Exercise one: Skim through the transcribed sentence and supply it with the orthographic version

Exercise two: This time, transcribe this sentence (grammatical words are likely to use weak form

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Phonetics________________2nd Year LMD

Exercise three: Here is a simple exercise to help you develop the art of using emphatic stress Sentence with emphatic (contrastive) stress Transcription & Suggested meaning I didn’t say he stole the money I didn’t say he stole the money I didn’t say he stole the money I didn’t say he stole the money I didn’t say he stole the money I didn’t say he stole the money

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This time, read the following sentence aloud using emphatic stress then match it to its suggested meaning: 1. I said she might consider a new haircut 7→a) Not just a haircut. 2. I said she might consider a new haircut 4→b) It’s just a possibility. 3. I said she might consider a new haircut 1→c) It was my idea. 4. I said she might consider a new haircut 7→d) Not something else. 5. I said she might consider a new haircut 2→e) Don’t you understand me? 6. I said she might consider a new haircut 3→f) Not another person. 7. I said she might consider a new haircut 6→g) She should have think about it, it’s a good idea. Exercise four: Transcribe the following short passage and mark the primary stress when necessary

1- I can1 do it. Can1 you?

/  kæn│ kæn ju /

2- What are you looking at2?

/ wt  æt /

3- What did you do1 that3 for2 ?

/ wt ðæt

 /

4- Where does he come from2?

/  d i 



5- What were you dreaming of 2 ?

/ wt w

j

/

  /

6- She’s5 coming to1 Birmingham not form1 Birmingham. /      / 7- Jane went to Oxford and to Cambridge. /  went t ə ənd tə  / 8- As long as you study seriously, you won’t4 fail in any subject. / əz ləz jəstdi │ jə  fel  eni  / 5 6 9- What’s his name? His name is John. / wts  nem │ hz nem z  / 1

CAN in this context is contrastively/emphatically stressed /kæn/ . AT is pronounced with strong form /æt/ when it comes in final position though it remains unstressed. 3 THAT is always unstressed wherein we use the strong form /ðæt/ as a demonstrative but weak form /ðət/ as a conjunction. 4 WON’T auxiliary verbs and modals are used in strong form when they’re negative contracted form (isn’t, aren’t, wasn’t, weren’t, can’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t, don’t, haven’t, hasn’t, mustn’t, shan’t, shouldn’t) 5 SHE’S in contractions we use the strong form and weak forms ( We’re, I’ll, he’ll, she’ll, there’ll, I’ve, you’ve, I’d, we’d, who’s) 6 HIS here the initial /h/ is usually dropped (his, he, her, has, have, who) but /h/ is kept at the beginning of a sentence or emphatic 2

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Phonetics________________2nd Year LMD

Teacher: Mr.Aounali . W

Solution of exercise one:

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Phonetics________________2nd Year LMD

Teacher: Mr.Aounali . W

Solution of exercise two:

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