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This is David's final lesson on sentence stress and intonation. Aqui está a parte final da lição do David sobre intonação e ênfase de sentenças e frases em inglês.
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Friday Talk May 14, 2010 - English Stress and Intonation - Part 3
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TIM: Hello! This is Tim. In the last two weeks, David taught us about content words, focus words, peak syllables. Make sure you review that, and now listen to David giving us one final example.
DAVID: Let me give you an easy sentence that a beginner student would use.
"How do you spell dictionary?"
Do we pronounce it like that? "How - do - you - spell - dictionary".
No. We would pronounce it, "How-do-you SPELL DIC-TIONARY?".
We pronounce "spell" a little bit more, because usually the verbs would be considered focus words, because you emphasize a little bit more the verb.
And then this [dictionary] is the main focus word.
"How-do-you SPELL DIC-TIONARY?"
See the peak?
We don't say, "How - do - you - spell - dictionary.."
Many times Brazilians have difficulties understanding a phrase like this because native speakers tend to crush the "function words". So they'll say like...
It's funny because if you try it with one of your students, you'll have him listen to a conversation and have him mark the word he hears; he'll usually mark the focus words, because that's the word he can identify because it's mostly stressed.
So, I'll talk a little bit more about this and give other examples some other time. Thank you very much!
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