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Reduction
Stress
Content Words
Function Words
Syllable rules
100
This is the sound that vowels are reduced to.
What is schwa?
100
This is how we show stress on a vowel.
What is louder, longer, and higher?
100
This is the purpose of content words.
What is to give important information?
100
This is the purpose of function words.
What is grammar?
100
This is the maximum number of vowels in a syllable.
What is one?
200
This is the schwa sound.
What is "uh"?
200
This is the number of syllables in a word that can have stress.
What is one?
200
This is the reason why content words are emphasized in English.
What is to make the information as clear as possible?
200
This is the meaning of "de-emphasize".
What is to show that something is weak or not important?
200
If you're unsure of the number of syllables in a word, you can check it here.
What is the dictionary?
300
This is the reduction of "you".
What is "*ya"?
300
This is number of the stressed syllable (i.e. first or second) in the word "dessert".
What is second?
300
This is the way content words are emphasized.
What is with stress?
300
These are the 2 ways to de-emphasize function words.
What are contraction and reduction?
300
This is the stress rule in words that end in "-tion".
What is the second to last syllable is stressed?
400
This is the reduction of "would not have".
What is "wouldna"?
400
This is the biggest difference between stressed syllables and unstressed syllables.
What is length?
400
This is how English speakers change the pitch of important content words.
What is make the pitch higher?
400
These are the 4 most common parts of speech of function words.
What are helping verbs, prepositions, articles, and pronouns.
400
Most 2-syllable nouns have the stress on this syllable.
What is the first?
500
This is the way to tell whether the reduction of "to" should be "*ta" or "*da".
What is the voicing of the last sound of the word before "to"?
500
This is the difference between reduced syllables and unstressed syllables.
What is vowel clarity?
500
These are the 4 most common parts of speech of content words.
What are nouns, main verbs, adjectives, and adverbs?
500
This is how function words change as the speaker speaks faster.
What is reduction?
500
This is how we know whether the past tense "-ed" verb ending adds a syllable or not.
What is a syllable is added if the last sound in the word is a "t" or "d".