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This document discusses stress and intonation in spoken English. It provides rules for determining stress in words with multiple syllables, such as nouns often being stressed on the first syllable and verbs often on the second. Exceptions are noted. Stress patterns are explained for longer words ending in common suffixes like -tion or -ic. Intonation is also mentioned briefly as important in proper pronunciation.

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Stress

This document discusses stress and intonation in spoken English. It provides rules for determining stress in words with multiple syllables, such as nouns often being stressed on the first syllable and verbs often on the second. Exceptions are noted. Stress patterns are explained for longer words ending in common suffixes like -tion or -ic. Intonation is also mentioned briefly as important in proper pronunciation.

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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

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