How to recognize stressed and unstressed syllables? (E.g. admit vs ...
2021年11月10日 — I wonder is there any simple rules to recognize is a syllable stressed or unstressed. When I try to pronounce any word, I don't recognize any of the following features of a stressed syllable: 1) longer, 2) louder, and 3) change in pitch. All words sound "the same" because I'm not a native English speaker.
/ə/ in a stressed syllable? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2016年1月9日 — When the schwa symbol <ə> is used in a stressed syllable, it almost certainly represents the STRUT vowel, even though this is standardly represented by /ʌ/. The "stressed schwa" notation for this vowel is probably most common in ad-hoc dictionary phonemic notation systems (I'd guess because it is more familiar to the general public than <ʌ ...
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2011年9月24日 — It would be better expressed as "Stressed" vs. "Unstressed". Take the classic limerick starter, "There once was a man from Nantucket". When you speak the line, the emphasis naturally falls onto certain syllables: there ONCE was a MAN from nanTUCKet. which looks like. da DA da da DA da da DA da. which is a nice repeating pattern.
Is /ʌ/ really a stressed schwa, appearing only in stressed syllables?
2022年11月8日 — unstressed syllbles retaining the full quality of the vowels without any reduction into schwas. Eg 1st syllable in “undone” & 3rd syllable in the verb form of “advocate” as well as the ending syllable of “city”. The purpose of this is to retain some clarity of (and meaning represented by) the syllables. Weakest schwaed syllables.
Is the diphthong [ai] on a non-primary stressed syllable a ...
2015年2月7日 — For organization and triumphant, we have /ai/ in an unstressed syllable because a suffix changes the stress, and we use the same vowel in both versions. The word triumphant has been used since the early 15th century , around the start of the Great Vowel Shift.
Is a schwa ever stressed? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2011年5月25日 — Yes, those can all reduce to schwa when unstressed, but when stressed, they get different identities. And the second syllable, being stressed, howsoever you should fold, spindle, or mutilate it, you cannot get to a schwa. Only when in very fast speech where the entire word loses stress (and most of its first syllable) can /b(ə)kəz/ occur.
pronunciation - Dark L in unstressed syllables - English Language ...
2019年1月11日 — For this rule, stress is relevant: /l/ cannot be dark at the start of a stressed syllable, but it can be dark at the start of an unstressed syllable (assuming that we syllabify words like "holy" as "ho.ly"). I didn't see a detailed analysis of how this rule was supposed to apply. For t-flapping, Bermúdez-Otero says there are actually two rules ...
Marking stress for a syllable - English Language & Usage Stack …
2015年1月4日 — Marking stress for a syllable. In the word 'cartoon', sound is /kɑːtuːn/. word has two syllables, kɑː and tuːn and the syllable tuːn is stressed. But the online dictionaries don't show the dot (.) between these two syllables. but stress mark is marked for the syllable tuːn.
How to find stressed syllables in English text as a non-native …
2020年5月11日 — First off, a note about stressed syllables: all languages have them. They may, however, vary in their rules for them. A note about stressed syllables in English: the words themselves do not completely determine which syllables are stressed. A speaker may CHOOSE (<- stressed syllable) to stress a syllable in order to convey a certain emphasis.
pronunciation - Orthograpy of /æ/ in unstressed syllables - English ...
2019年3月13日 — Fully unstressed closed syllables can have /æ/ or /ə/. It remains to discuss /m æ ɡˈnɪfəsənt/ and /ˈæk.ɹo.b æ t/. In both of these, the /æ/ is in a "closed" syllable (a syllable that ends in a consonant). Unfortunately, it is possible for /ə/ to occur in a closed syllable, so you can't completely predict the use of /æ/ rather ...