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Give the proper sentence stress to convey this meaning:
I didn’t steal your wallet. (I borrowed your wallet.)
I didn’t “steal” your wallet.
Give the proper sentence stress to convey this meaning:
We can’t go to the party tonight. (We can go to the party another time.)
We can’t go to the party “tonight”.
Give the proper sentence stress to convey this meaning:
She didn’t break the window. (She broke another window.)
She didn’t break “the” window.
Give the proper sentence stress to convey this meaning:
They didn’t meet on Friday. (They talked on the phone on Friday.)
They didn’t “meet” on Friday.
Give the proper sentence stress to convey this meaning:
I didn’t borrow your book. (I borrowed someone else’s book.)
I didn’t borrow “your” book.
Interpret this phonological rule.
/k/ → [+aspirated] / $ _____ V́
/k/ gets aspirated at the beginning of the stressed syllable.
Interpret this phonological rule.
/ed/ → [ɪd] / C [+alveolar, + stop] ____
The past tense morpheme -ed is pronounced as [ɪd] when it follows alveolar stop sounds.
Interpret this phonological rule.
/s/ → [ɪz] / C [s, z, ʃ, ʒ, tʃ ,dʒ] ____
The morpheme -s is pronounced as [ɪz] when it follows a sibilant.
Interpret this phonological rule.
C [+voice, +stop] → C [-voice] / ____#
A voiced stop sound becomes voiceless when it occurs at the end of a word.
Interpret this phonological rule.
{ /t/, /d/ } → [ɾ] / V́ _____ V̌
An alveolar stop sound (t, d) can be flapped when it follows a stressed vowel and precedes an unstressed vowel.
Give 6 words that have the word stress on the 2nd syllable.
important, relax, about, hotel, arrive, forget, correct
Give 6 words that have the word tress on the 1st syllable (the words should have more than 1 syllable.)
table, water, teacher, doctor, elephant, family, chocolate
Give 3 nouns with the primary stress on the 3rd syllable.
afternoon, engineer, kangaroo, employee, magazine
Give 3 nouns with the primary stress on the 4th syllable.
communication, recommendation, organization, qualification, clarification, ramification
Which syllable gets word stress in each of these words?: prefer, component, photography, economics, politician, refrigerator
politics (1st), prefer (2nd), component (2nd), photography (2nd), refrigerator (2nd), economics (3rd)