How to recognize stressed and unstressed syllables? (E. g. admit vs . . . I wonder is there any simple rules to recognize is a syllable stressed or unstressed When I try to pronounce any word, I don't recognize any of the following features of a stressed syllable: 1) longer, 2) louder, and 3) change in pitch All words sound "the same" because I'm not a native English speaker
poetry - What is the name of a particular poetic foot, unstressed . . . A poetic foot comprised of three syllables, the first unstressed, the following two stressed, is called a Bacchius In fact, most poetic feet up through tetrasyllables have Greek names: a stressed syllable followed by three unstressed syllables is a "first epitrite"
In IPA, what is the difference between ə and ʌ? In English, the only real difference between these two is that [ʌ] occurs in stressed syllables, and [ə] occurs in unstressed syllables There is a slight acoustic difference between the two ([ʌ] is supposed to be a tiny bit lower and possibly backer than [ə]), but it is so slight that it is virtually indistinguishable
poetry - iambic pentameter, stress, and monosyllables - English . . . From what I have read, there are 10 syllables per line and 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables It goes unstressed, stressed, unstressed etc For words that have more than one syllable, it seems that the stressed and unstressed pattern is set already e g if you go to dictionary com: after [af-ter] the first syllable is always stressed
How do you choose between stressed to be and unstressed? Both Wiktionary and Wordrefence have a stressed and an unstressed form in their dictionary I know that, for example, the verb "to have" is used in strong form only when used negatively: "I have seen her " aɪ həv si:n hə and "I haven't seen her " aɪ hævnt si:n hə But for the verb "to be", I can't find an example where we could use it
pronunciation - Dark L in unstressed syllables - English Language . . . (2) Sometimes a single consonant in English between a stressed vowel and an unstressed vowel is shifted into the preceding syllable with the stressed vowel Since "ur" is a single stressed vowel (even though it's spelled with two letters), and "-y" is an unstressed vowel, the "l" might shift into the first syllable for this reason
Difference between IPA ɚ, ɹ, and ɝ I am happy to know the difference between ɝ and ɚ as being stressed and unstressed As far as trying to hear the real difference goes, that's no concern to me if that's the only difference between them I mean I can hear it So that's all good The ɚ and ɹ though, I cannot hear a difference between the dialects I suppose there is a difference
pronunciation - Orthograpy of æ in unstressed syllables - English . . . When the form aluminum is used, the second syllable is stressed, so the first syllable is unstressed and reduced to schwa: əˈlumɪnəm It's the same for ə ˈparent and ə ˈlumni In phoˈtogr ə phy the second syllable is stressed, and the third syllable is fully unstressed Fully unstressed closed syllables can have æ or ə
ɪ sound when not stressed - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The fact is that many people reduce all unstressed vowels to some allophone of ə like [ɨ] or [ʉ], while others actually do pronounce some as ɪ -- or even as i if they're final Pronunciation of unstressed vowels is more or less free choice, as long as they're brief enough to fit into the stress group
pronunciation - Are there any words pronounced with an unstressed short . . . However, it does seem other unstressed vowels besides schwa can terminate a word From a phonetics course: three weak, unstressed vowels Schwa, KIT and FOOT do occur at the end of words such as teacher, China, happy, to [2] In particular, words like < happy > and < copy > are transcribed as ending in a short unstressed tense high front vowel [i]: