The words are made up of syllables. Syllables are units of sound that almost always have, with few exceptions, at least one vowel sound. In the words of two or more syllables, one syllable is emphasized while others say quickly and without emphasis.
Lump for accentuation of syllables rules are: 1) the words can only have a tonic accent and 2) is always a voice that carries the tonic accent.
Interestingly, related words, they may have different emphases (photo, photographer, photographic) and depending on where we put the stress on words homographs, changes the meaning of the word (see note below). For now, the important thing is to understand what the accentuation of syllables and meet guidelines accent in English.
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What is the different between content words and structure words?
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What are the content words in the next sentence? - Many schools are turning to online education for grater flexibility.
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Identify which is the FOCUS WORD in the next question: What time is the meeting on curriculum development?
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In which of the following cases should be emphasized in a sentence:
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What is the importance that you emphasize a word in a sentence?
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Was it a great help this practical exercise
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What is the meaning of FUNCTION WORD?
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Which are structure words?
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Why is important to de-emphasize the words?
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Explicación
Content words are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sometimes adverbs. Those are the words that help us form a picture in our head; they give us the contents of our story and tell our listener where to focus his or her attention. We want our listener to be able to quickly grasp the main content of our story, so we make the content words easier to hear by bringing attention to them with added stress
This means that in order to reduce your accent you need to learn about how American English speakers use focus words and sentence stress.American English speakers stress the CONTENT and FOCUS words in a sentence or phrase. That’s because CONTENT and FOCUS words are integral to the meaning of a sentence.They reduce the sounds of function words in a sentence because while these words hold a sentence together, they are not key to meaning.
Content Words and Focus Words
The most important words in English sentences are CONTENT words and FOCUS words. Content and focus words are pronounced louder and with a higher pitch than the other words in a sentence. CONTENT words are usually nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, question words, negatives and numbers.
It is important that students learn, understand and regularly use the words and phrases that are commonly used in specific subject areas. We call these Focus Words. Each classroom has a list of focus words on the wall that are relevant to the subject being taught and by using these more often our students will in turn gain a more fluent understanding of the subject.
Prominence typically signals…
1. New information
2. Information the speaker wishes to
emphasize: emphatic stress
3. Parallel, contrasting elements within
an utterance: contrastive stress
In English it is very important to emphasize the words to clarify certain ideas or highlight them and so to allow other people understand them perfectly.
Function words belong to the closed class of words in grammar in that it is very uncommon to have new function words created in the course of speech, whereas in the open class of words (that is, nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs) new words may be added readily (such as slang words, technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words). See neologism.
Each function word either gives some grammatical information on other words in a sentence or clause, and cannot be isolated from other words, or it may indicate the speaker's mental model as to what is being said.
Grammatical words, as a class, can have distinct phonological properties from content words. Grammatical words sometimes do not make full use of all the sounds in a language. For example, in some of the Khoisan languages, most content words begin with clicks, but very few function words do.
articles — the and a. In some inflected languages, the articles may take on the case of the declension of the following noun.
pronouns — inflected in English, as he — him, she — her, etc.
adpositions — uninflected in English
conjunctions — uninflected in English
auxiliary verbs — forming part of the conjugation (pattern of the tenses of main verbs), always inflected
interjections — sometimes called "filled pauses", uninflected
particles — convey the attitude of the speaker and are uninflected, as if, then, well, however, thus, etc.
expletives — take the place of sentences, among other functions.
pro-sentences — yes, okay, etc.
The simplest way to emphasize something is to tell readers directly that what follows is important by using such words and phrases as especially, particularly, crucially, most importantly, and above all.
Emphasis by repetition of key words can be especially effective in a series, as in the following example.
See your good times come to color in minutes: pictures protected by an elegant finish, pictures you can take with an instant flash, pictures that can be made into beautiful enlargements.
Prominence is the most inportan information in a sentence.
Intonation describes how the voice rises and falls in speech. The three main patterns of intonation in English are: falling intonation, rising intonation and fall-rise intonation.
Falling intonation
Falling intonation describes how the voice falls on the final stressed syllable of a phrase or a group of words. A falling intonation is very common in wh-questions.
Where’s the nearest p↘ost-office?
What time does the film f↘inish?
We also use falling intonation when we say something definite, or when we want to be very clear about something:
I think we are completely l↘ost.
OK, here’s the magaz↘ine you wanted.
See also:
Questions: wh-questions
Rising intonation
Rising intonation describes how the voice rises at the end of a sentence. Rising intonation is common in yes-no questions:
I hear the Health Centre is expanding. So, is that the new d↗octor?
Are you th↗irsty?
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