I didn't know anything about stress and intonation in English. I started learning it when I was 34 years old. My first words were spoken in it in Ireland and I have no problems with pronunciation. But my situation was unique. At that time I did not know that behind me was the sound of real English, which I had got in my youth from American movies, where English was hidden under Russian. I was watching the actor's performance and did not realize that I was getting a new language in my head.
Hi. Thanks for your interest and suggestion. I hope to make more videos on stress. My first goal is to help viewers know and identify stressed and unstressed words in sentences especially the strongest and weakest stress. Contrasting these two will give the most improvement in pronunciation. It's good to know what viewers want!
Good evening madam and thank you for the fantastic classes, I have a question about word stress. In a genitive phrase like the teacher's attention which word between teacher and attention is stressed. And for genitive without 's like the word car key.Thank you in advance
Tough question. Here's what I think. I believe your question is whether the possessive or the following noun get the most stress in a sentence. To make it easier, I changed to a one syllable example: car's door. If this is like a compound noun, 'car door', then stress is on the first word, but...no. If it's like an adjective/noun, then stress is on the second word, but...no. I think the stress is determined by location in the sentence because both words are nouns and get sentence stress. "The car's door is open"- 'car's, door, open' are all stressed, but 'open' gets more stress because it is the final stressed (content) word- making 'car's door' equal stress on each word (but less than 'open'). If we say, "Open the car's door," then 'door' gets the most stress being the last stressed word in the sentence. Sentence stress predominates. So, I don't think you can make a rule based on a phrase.
@@emmanuelmb4839I believe knowing the context will give you the answer to your question. The context dictates, not the other way around. TEACHER’S attention - context may be: “You make me repeat myself, I told already told you who you need to distract…” or teacher’s ATTENTION - the context may be: “Grab her attention”. Always rely on context, because put it this way - We, in life, always go by context.
I didn't know anything about stress and intonation in English. I started learning it when I was 34 years old. My first words were spoken in it in Ireland and I have no problems with pronunciation.
But my situation was unique. At that time I did not know that behind me was the sound of real English, which I had got in my youth from American movies, where English was hidden under Russian. I was watching the actor's performance and did not realize that I was getting a new language in my head.
You have an interesting history. Thanks for sharing.
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Really helpful for English learners!
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great video... I wonder about the examples for the difference between: stress 1 and stress 2... and difference between stress 2 and 3...
Hi. Thanks for your interest and suggestion. I hope to make more videos on stress. My first goal is to help viewers know and identify stressed and unstressed words in sentences especially the strongest and weakest stress. Contrasting these two will give the most improvement in pronunciation. It's good to know what viewers want!
Good evening madam and thank you for the fantastic classes, I have a question about word stress. In a genitive phrase like the teacher's attention which word between teacher and attention is stressed. And for genitive without 's like the word car key.Thank you in advance
Tough question. Here's what I think. I believe your question is whether the possessive or the following noun get the most stress in a sentence. To make it easier, I changed to a one syllable example: car's door. If this is like a compound noun, 'car door', then stress is on the first word, but...no. If it's like an adjective/noun, then stress is on the second word, but...no. I think the stress is determined by location in the sentence because both words are nouns and get sentence stress. "The car's door is open"- 'car's, door, open' are all stressed, but 'open' gets more stress because it is the final stressed (content) word- making 'car's door' equal stress on each word (but less than 'open'). If we say, "Open the car's door," then 'door' gets the most stress being the last stressed word in the sentence. Sentence stress predominates. So, I don't think you can make a rule based on a phrase.
@@basicamericanpronunciation7726 thank you madam.
@@emmanuelmb4839I believe knowing the context will give you the answer to your question. The context dictates, not the other way around. TEACHER’S attention - context may be: “You make me repeat myself, I told already told you who you need to distract…” or teacher’s ATTENTION - the context may be: “Grab her attention”. Always rely on context, because put it this way - We, in life, always go by context.
@@thesilencer6736 thank you