What exactly is stress? Should this sound be louder?

Speaking of stress, it goes without saying that our first reaction is to pronounce the word more heavily. What is it that needs to be read, especially disyllabic words? For monosyllabic syllables, it is relatively easy to handle, with only one syllable.

Words can be divided into stressed syllables and unstressed syllables. Stressed syllables are usually marked with sharp symbols, while unstressed syllables are marked with blunt symbols. Stressed syllables are more pronounced than unstressed syllables, so that a word will be light and heavy.

Sometimes stressed syllables can distinguish the meaning of words. For example, we often hear the stressed syllables of nouns in front and verbs in the back. When a word changes, it has different meanings.

Record? /? rek？ D/n record

Record? /r？ k？ Take notes.

Theme? /? s？ bd？ kt /？ subject

Theme? b？ d？ ekt/？ suffer

Try reading the following words aloud:

Project? Conflict? criminal

Some compound words are composed of two words. If the stresses are placed in different positions, their meanings will change accordingly. Blackboard stress means "blackboard" in the first sentence. If you put the stress on the second word, blackboard, the focus is on the blackboard. Black is a modifier, a blackboard, any piece, so it is not necessarily a blackboard.

Another is a hot dog? There are also hot dogs, the first meaning is hot dogs, which everyone likes to eat, and the second meaning is hot dogs.

I don't know if you have found that if there is a stressed syllable in a polysyllabic word, the corresponding secondary stress becomes its weak reading form, which usually weakens into a middle vowel.

If stress is emphasized, it is generally 1. Change the pitch, first raise the pitch, then lower the pitch. Speak louder, that is, read more books at ordinary times. 3. The corresponding vowel part is longer. These are all aimed at stressed syllables.

Such as: fundamentals? Linguistic obedience

Education? language

Let's read an English word, such as cat. Whether we use rising tone, falling tone, falling tone or rising and falling tone, it means that it will not change, or that animals like cats will not change. But compared with Chinese, the change of tone will affect the meaning of words.

Chinese has four tones: flat tone (one tone), rising tone (two tones), rising tone (three tones) and falling tone (four tones). For example, when we go out to eat, the boss will bring us a plate of staple food, but once we say it, it will become pig food. Then a joke came out. Zhu Can stands for four different meanings.

So pitch will not affect the meaning of words. On the contrary, other languages besides Chinese may also be influenced by pitch. English is not tonal language, but intonation language. The change of pitch will not change the meaning of words, but what effect will it have on sentences?

For example, when expressing doubts in Chinese, a "horse" is usually added at the end of a sentence, but the intonation is almost unchanged, and it has always been flat without ups and downs. This is also the reason why we can't speak English well, influenced by our mother tongue.

But English is different. The same sentence has different meanings in different intonations.

As we mentioned earlier, there are four intonations in English: rising tone, falling tone, falling tone and rising and falling tone, which are rarely used horizontally.

Different intonation means different meanings, falling tone generally means declarative tone, rising tone means interrogative tone, and falling tone means there is something to say. At this point, the listener should continue to wait for the speaker to finish the conversation, instead of directly interrupting or interrupting.

Is that your friend David? Try to answer in four different tones.

2.2 Will the sound length change the meaning of words?

In short, if the vowel part is elongated. We found that the meaning of this word will not change. For example, stop, read the vowel in the middle longer, and the other party can still understand what we are saying. Still means stop.

But like other languages, it is different. In Japanese, the change of sound length will change the meaning of words. For example: beer and architecture. Only the middle one is different, and the meaning is completely changed. The bar in the middle is the representative of the long sound.

03 .

I believe everyone has understood how to pronounce a word. Let's review it again, change the pitch, increase the sound, stress the vowel and lengthen the vowel. Using 1-2, the pronunciation of a word is perfectly presented.

For sentence reading, intonation can reflect semantic differences. Different intonations convey different meanings. That depends on what we want to express, and then use the corresponding tone. Try reading some disyllabic words by yourself.

Knowing the method is one of them. Practice in actual combat, use is the truth.

Well, that's all the stress. Review the old and learn the new, remember to review it at any time.