53: Phrasal verb sentence stress

American English Pronunciation Podcast

Seattle Learning Academy

Language Learning, Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2009

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Typical sentence stress changes when phrasal verbs are involved: stress the preposition, not the verb. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.
0:10.0	My name is Mandy and this is our 53rd episode.
0:15.0	I want to send a welcome to all the new listeners from Brazil today.
0:20.0	I have had a sudden jump in Brazilian listeners
0:22.4	due to a link from a prominent English learning website there. I've gotten emails from a few of you
0:28.2	this week, and I want to make sure you all know we have forums on pronunciation, and that is a
0:34.4	great place to post your questions. That way, everyone can learn from your question.
0:41.2	Today's podcast is dealing with the rhythm of English, specifically sentence stress.
0:49.1	Spoken rhythm is primarily created through a pattern of stressed and unstressed words.
0:55.0	I'm sorry, but a bit of grammar is necessary here.
0:59.0	Generally, content words are stressed words, and function words are unstressed words.
1:07.0	Nouns, main verbs, adjectives, and certain adverbs are usually content words. Nouns, main verbs, adjectives, and certain adverbs are usually content words. The other words,
1:16.6	including pronouns, auxiliary verbs, and prepositions are usually unstressed words. Before we get started,
1:27.3	I want to make sure everyone remembers that verbs tell us
1:31.8	the action of a sentence. In the sentence, Janet swims. The word swims is the verb, and verbs are
1:42.5	considered content words. In the sentence, and verbs are considered content words.
1:53.4	In the sentence, I am speaking, the words am and speaking are verbs.
1:59.5	Speaking is the main verb, and am is the auxiliary verb.
2:04.6	In sentences that have a main verb and an auxiliary verb,
2:10.6	main verbs are content words, and auxiliary verbs are function words.
2:14.4	The main verb gives the main information, and the auxiliary verb allows us to use the main verb in a grammatically
2:19.6	correct way.
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