The characteristics of English pronunciation
ü English is considered a time-stressed language while many other languages are considered syllabic languages.
ü In many languages, such as French or Italian or Chinese in particular, each syllable receives equal importance (there is stress, but each syllable has its own length).
English pronunciation focuses on specific stressed words while quickly gliding over the other, non-stressed, words. Thus, pronouncing every word correctly leads to poor
pronunciation! Good pronunciation comes from stressing the right words.
¨ Reading the following conversation:
A: Hi, Francis. How is it going ?
B: Pretty good. How about you ? How you have been doing ?
A: Same as ever. Say, what are you going to do tonight ? Do you want to come over and join a party ?
B: Sounds like fun. Who is going ?
A: Bob and Jane and a bunch of my street buddies.
B: Cool. Count me in, then … … All right, see you tonight.
A: Talk to you later.
Sentence Stress
Why do we have to learn Sentence stress ?
¨ In terms of speaking, S.S affects the degree to which a student sounds “natural”.
¨ In terms of listening, S.S. affects how well a student can understand the utterances they hear.
¨ In general, Sentence stress affects the degree of overall fluency.
How Sentence Stress works （ 句子重读的讲解）
¨ In any given sentence in English there will be words that carry stress and others that don’t.
¨ Stressed words carry the meaning or the sense behind the sentence, and for this reason they are called “Content Words” (实义词)- they carry the content of the sentence.
¨ Unstressed words tend to be smaller words that have more of a grammatical significance - they help the sentence “function” syntactically and for this reason they are called “Function Words”（辅助词） 作者: yoyo530521 时间: 2011-3-9 19:33
time-stressed language 给解释解释咧，版版！作者: leenyao 时间: 2011-3-9 21:00
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