Unstressed And Stressed Syllables

They are not spoken as loudly. The stressed syllables are the ones which are emphasized or spoken more loudly.

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When i was a little kid i could never say the word aluminum properly.

Unstressed and stressed syllables. And in polysyllabic words it s important to know which syllable is stressed because there are stressed and unstressed syllables. The unstressed syllables are not emphasized. Stress may fall on syllables in any position e g.

Most words that are made up of more than one syllable have at least one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable. In your english class you may have learned this as accented syllables. Em is the stressed syllable in the word and the other two are unstressed.

Let s see if we can work it out by syllables. The primary stress appears on the first syllable the secondary stress on the second syllable and the third and final syllable is unstressed. You could argue that size has a secondary stress but the general rule is only one syllable in a word has the primary stress.

Further not every polysyllabic word will have a secondary stress. Stressed syllables are pronounced slightly louder for a slightly longer duration and at a slightly higher pitch than unstressed syllables oronyms can illustrate the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables. So for example in the word ahead head is the stressed syllable and the a at the beginning is un stressed a head.

However not all english words pattern in this neat way. The quieter quicker unstressed syllables are the ones you have not underlined like the i in clarify or and most of the poem is iambic which means its meter uses an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable a pattern that reads like da dum da dum da dum. The two oronyms on the right include exactly the same sounds in the same order but the stress is on different syllables.

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