9b Advanced stress patterns
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PART TWO of a lesson in THREE parts. Topic: Stress in phrases and sentences. Part B presents two new rhythmic patterns to practice.
Level: advanced.
All right, you’re ready to learn / a couple of new rhythmic patterns now.
[Listen & see screen]
How did I know that the words in blue will receive primary stress? Watch, in the first sentence, all is the new information, so the final content word is dance.
And then the next phrase, an elegant hairstyle, hairstyle is an old information, so the content word left to stress is elegant.
And the next phrase, a special hairstyle is old information, cost is the only content word left to stress. Now we have a question. An old information is about cost.
The final content word (to stress)? Much. In the next question, it’s all new, our final content word is know.
Now let’s look at the final sentence: it contains a lot of old information. The only new phrase / is one hundred dollars, the final content word is dollars.
Were you able to predict the words that receive the primary stress? Here’s how you should’ve separated the old information from the new.
There’s just bit more practice to do, so please go on to the next part of this lesson.
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