American Accent Training 笔记 03

American Accent Training  笔记 03

Syllable stress

1 in spoken English ,if you stress the wrong syllable , you can totally lose the meaning of a word.

2 each syllable will count as one musical note

Remember that words that end in a vowel or a voiced consonant will be longer than ones ending in an unvoiced consonant

Complex intonation

1 one way of approaching sentence intonation is not to build each sentence from scratch .Instead ,use patterns ,with each pattern similar to a mathematical formula.

Instead in numbers ,however, plug in words

2 at times ,what appears to be a single syllable word will have a longer sound to it

Two-word phrases

Descriptive phrases

1 Nouns are heavier than adjectives ;they carry the weight of the new information

2 an adjective and a noun combination is called a descriptive phrase, and in the absence of contrast or other secondary changes ,the stress will always fall naturally on the noun.

Set phrases

1 When you have a two-word phrase ,you have to either stress on the first word ,or on the second word.

2 If you stress both or neither ,it is not clear what you are trying to say.

3 Read it over ,think about it ,then listen ,try it out ,listen some more ,and try it out again

Words like guy man kid lady people are de facto pronouns in an anthropocentric.