Tuesday, August 13, 2024

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:


Three blind mice  (three syllables)

Twenty scary tigers (six syllables)

Hundreds of dangerous elephants (nine syllables)

Thirty thousand terrifying piranha fish (twelve syllables)

Three blind elephants (four syllables)

Twenty dangerous mice (six syllables)

Thirty thousand scary mice (seven syllables)

Hundreds of blind tigers (five syllables)

Three dangerous piranha fish (eight syllables)

Twenty terrifying tigers (eight syllables)

Three dangerous mice (five syllables)

Twenty blind piranha fish (seven syllables)




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