Questions for Discussion
1.
What is known as word-stress or word accent?
2.
What is called “the accentual nucleus”?
3.
What is secondary stress?
4.
Name the Basic Rules of English Word Accentuation?
5.
What words have two primary stresses?
SELF –TEST
1.
Write down the transcription and state the number of the stressed phoneme in the
following words:
4
E.g. damage [ 'd
æm
ɪʤ
]
pleasant, thoughtful, languages, wardrobe, armchair, kitchen, cheerful, among, preface, embankment,
between, convenience, furniture, everything, substantial, inclination, satisfaction, nevertheless,
vegetables, librarian, manuscript, catalogue, bargain, reference, warehouse, sufficient, politician,
passionate, advocate, preliminary, oriental, candidate, approximately, tiredness, mountaineering
2.
Read the following noun/verb pairs, mark the stresses.
conduct
to conduct
import
to import
object
to object
record
to record
transport
to transport
accent
to accent
protest
to protest
refuse
to refuse
export
to export
review
to review
3.
Give the phonetic analyses of the words given below:
Pillow, city, Monday, possible, silence, cotton, table, potato
4.
Transcribe the following words:
Behind, couple, sound, blue, book, attention, bench, student, match, passage, atlas intonation,
university, translation, noteworthy, catalogue, kilometre, microscopy
5.
Write down the following dialogue. Pay careful attention to the patterns of the various
nouns and verbs in boldface type. Mark the stresses.
MICHAEL: Welcome to the annual meeting of the
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