Dogs eat meat

Elephants gobble vegetables

Fred stopped E lizabeth started

How many syllables?

Fred ranFred has stoppedFred should have stopped by now

Fred ranFred has stoppedFred should have stopped by now

'John 'loves 'AnnPe 'nelope a 'dores 'Christopher

'Fred is e 'namoured of 'Oliver

Isochronic sentence stress

Stessed syllables in the sentence seem to occur at fairly regular intervals, irrespectively of the number of unstressed syllables between them

Stessed syllables in the sentence seem to occur at fairly regular intervals, irrespectively of the number of unstressed syllables between them

Where's the book I left on the table?

Where's the package I left on the able?

Where's the dictionary I left on the table?

Where's the cas sette I left on the table?

Where's the package I left on the re frigerator?

Where's the package I left on the infor mation desk?

Where's the book I left on the table?

Where's the book I left here?

What's the book like?

1we0z ð0 1buk ai 1left on ð0 1teibL / x / x / x x / x

1we0z ð0 1pækiD ai 1left on ð0 1teibL / x / x / x x / x

1we0z ð0 1dikSNrí ai 1left on ð0 1teibL / x / x x x / x x / x

1we0z ð0 k0 1set ai 1left on ð0 1teibL / x x / x / x x / x

1we0z ð0 ‘1pækiD ai 1left on ð0 ri 1friD0reit0 / x / x x / x x x / x x x

1we0z ð0 1pækiD ai 1left on ðí inf0 1meiSN 1desk / x / x x / x x x x / x /

1we0z ð0 1buk ai 1left on ð0 1teibL / x / x / x x / x

1we0z ð0 1buk ai 1left 1hi0 / x / x / /

1wots ð0 1buk 1laik / x / /

Isochronic stress

dogs eat meat

/ / /

elephants gobble vegetables

/ x x / x / x x

stress-timed languages syllable-timed languages

dogs eat meat / / /elephants gobble vegetables/ x x / x / x x

les chiens mangent de la viande x x x (x) x x x (x)les éléphants avalent des légumes x x x x x (x) x x x (x )

Mary at least has never pretended she could sing

'Mary at least has never pretended she could sing

'Mary at 'least has never pretended she could sing

'Mary at 'least has 'never pretended she could sing

'Mary at 'least has 'never pre'tended she could sing

'Mary at 'least has 'never pre'tended

she could 'sing

'Mary

'least

'neverpre'tended

'sing

at

has

she could

'Mary at 'least

has 'never pre'tended

she could 'sing

Weak and strong vowels again

• Review 4th-week slide show on Weak and strong Vowels

• See web page: http://www.hi.is/~peturk/KENNSLA/02/TOP/weakstrong.html

banana

reverse

photography

accuse

Banbury

redolent

accurate

photograph

Review:

stressed syllables unstressed syllables

mainly:all vowels except

SCHWA

KIT

FOOT(all other vowels can occur....)

Review:

unstressed syllablesmainly:

SCHWAKIT

FOOT(all other vowels can occur....)

In any single word, which of thesepossibilities occurs?

Review:

return

today

believe

arrive

obey

arrow

opera

re-play

two days

Compare:Review:

CLOSE (HIGH

BA

CKF

RO

NT

OPEN (LOW)

Review:

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attack occur

decide

wanted

to know

you know

accuratekisses

purpose

Review:

Review:

attack occur

decide

wanted

to know

you know

accuratekisses

purpose

Review:

Sentence stress

Which words in the sentence carry stress?

Distinguish between:

• LEXICAL WORDS(content words, open-class items)

• nouns• adjectives• adverbs • lexical verbs

•STRUCTURAL WORDS(functional words, closed-class items)

• prepositions• pronouns• auxiliary verbs

... and some other places!Further details athttp://notendur.hi.is/peturk/KENNSLA/02/Slides/26%20Sentence%20stress%20placment.ppt

Four weeks ago, with the finance system in freefall, Grimsson underwent a heart operation. He emerged to make a TV appearance in which he begged his compatriots to forgive him for making what - he could see in retrospect - was a buffoonish spectacle of himself as head of a country now perceived globally as an ostentatious upstart, and by some (such as Gordon Brown) as a debt-defaulting pariah.