Stress and syllable timed languages

 Stress and syllable timed languages

1. In a syllable-timed language, the length of a syllable changes / doesn't change if it is stressed.

2. Syllable-timed languages generally have / do not have reduced vowels.

3. If you add more syllables to an utterance in a syllable-timed language is will / won't take longer to say it.

4. In a stress-timed language, the time between stressed syllables is different / about the same. 

5. In stress-timed languages, syllables take / do not take the same amount of time.  

6. Stress-timed languages use / don't use a lot of vowel reduction.

7. "elisions" are sounds we lose / add when we say syllables faster.

8. "weak forms" are long / short vowels that become longer / shorter when we say syllables faster.

9. In English, words can / can't sound different separately to how they sound in a sentence.  

10. "Boys play games" and "The boys will be playing games" will / won't take the same amount of time to say.

11. A statement that looks longer in English, will / might not / won't take any longer to say than one that looks shorter. 

practice

Say these in the same amount of time:

da da da

dooby dooby dooby

dipety dipety dipety

da dooby da

dipety dooby da

dooby dipety dooby

da dipety dooby

dipety da da

dipety dooby da

dooby dipety dipety

dipety da dooby

 

Now try these

 

Three blind mice 

Twenty scary tigers

Hundreds of dangerous elephants

Thirty thousand terrifying piranha fish

Three blind elephants

Twenty dangerous mice

Thirty thousand scary mice

Hundreds of blind tigers

Three dangerous piranha fish

Twenty terrifying tigers

Three dangerous mice

Twenty blind piranha fish