E-02.08 Acquire Effective Accent-Acquisition Principles: Syllables & Syllable-Stress Patterns

Accent Activities: Pronunciation Supplement to Speaking. Part Two: Syllables Made Simple (Syllables & Syllable-Stress Patterns), pages 21-30 (+ pages 81-82 of Answer Key for Text Exercises)   10 + 2 (12) pages Who It’s For: Principles of Syllable-Stress should be applied to fluent speech, as well as words, phrases, and sentences that comprise it. Syllables are the “beats” of “speech music.”  Coherent speakers need to be aware of—and to articulate—correct  numbers of syllables.  Depending on the impact they wish to have when they talk, they ought to pronounce Stressed Syllables relatively longer, higher, louder, and/or more distinctly than Unstressed ones, which may sound shorter, lower, softer, and/or less clear or even “reduced.”  Here’s pedagogy and practice based on these “rules.” With  plenty of Vocabulary, it illustrates how Multi-Syllabic Stress Patterns work in Context. Why It’s Useful: Beginning with stressed One-Syllable Words, the sample utterances in Part Two o