Презентация на тему Sentencestressandrhythm

stress in connected speech. All words have their individual

stress in isolation. When words are connected into sense groups, and sense groups are connected into sentences, content words keep their stress, and function words lose their stress. The most important words in the sentence receive stronger stress. The last stressed word in the sentence receives the strongest stress with the help of a fall or a rise.

WHAT BOOK is she \READing?Does she LIKE the

/BOOK?

letters indicate stressed syllables and stressed one-syllable words; the

backslash indicates the falling tone; the forward slash indicates the rising tone. Sentence stress is indicated according to the American variant of pronunciation.

correct. They are not very important in terms of

the information that they provide, and their meaning is usually understandable from their immediate surrounding in a sentence. Even if you don't get some quickly pronounced function words, the meaning of the whole sentence will be clear to you.

"Missed train back Sunday." You will understand that it

means "I missed my train. I will be back on Sunday", right? Only content words are written in the message, but the meaning is clear. In the same way you should listen for stressed content words in speech to understand the meaning of the whole utterance.

of providing rhythm in speech. Rhythm is the key

to fluent English speech. Imagine a metronome beating the rhythm. The stressed syllables are like the beats of the metronome: regular, loud, and clear. The unstressed syllables between the beats are shortened, obscured, and joined together.

a letter.
Let's mark the stressed syllables:
KEVin SENT a \LETter.

sentence is stressed – unstressed – stressed – unstressed

– stressed – unstressed, with equal number of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.

of English intonation. Intonation organizes words into sentences, distinguishes

different types of sentences, and adds emotional coloring to utterances.

the sentence rhythmically, making the stressed syllables occur at

regular intervals and jamming together the unstressed syllables between the stressed syllables.