ACCENTUATION

AND
PRONUNCIATION
“ Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and
streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
•What are the
difference
between accent
pronunciation?
What are the difference
between accent
pronunciation?
 ACCENT
A distinctive way of pronouncing a
language especially one associated with
a particular country or social class.

Pronunciation
The way of pronouncing sounds
Components of Accent

A.Stress
B.Intonation
C.Linking
D.Articulation
 Stress
• Is
the emphasis put on the
syllables in words or either
words in phrase or
sentences.
Types of Stress

1. Emphatic

2. Contrastive

3. New Information
 Emphatic
Used to emphasize something
Example: 1. I want a strong theme.
2. Stay calm. Do not panic!
 Contrastive
Pertaining to something different
Example:
1. I love you, not her
2. We are third year not second year
 New Information
Is used when you are asked a certain question
and you give you answer to the question

1. What do you like? ICE CREAM

2. Where do you live? MONTEVISTA
3. When are you laving? TOMORROW
 Rules in stressing syllables
in words
1. First mono syllabic word are stressed
Example: deal, tame, dress, shop, men, tomb
2. Two or more three syllable words vary in their
stress:
First: Second
Ceremony bamboo
Titan semester
3. Using suffixes to predict stress
A.
-EE Payee Trainee referee
EER Engineer Career Volunteer
ESE Taiwanese Japanese Portuguese
IQUE Oblique Antique Technique
B. Stress the Syllable immediately before the suffix
IAL tutorial financial artificial
UAL residual unusual individual
IAN pedestrian politician vegetarian
SION fusion occasion conclusion
IENT ancient sufficient proficient
CIOUS ambitious cautious superstitious
C Stress the second syllable before the suffix
ATE exaggerate associate certificate
IZE criticize computerize
ARY contemporary vocabulary subsidiary
 4. Using Part of speech to
predict stress
Noun Verb
Contract Contract
Convert Convert
Desert Desert
Address Address
Conflict Conflict
Contrast Contrast
Remake Remake
5. Stress Compound nous on the
first word
DEADLINE FACEBOOK
CLASSROOM
SOFTWARE
POLICE MAN
AIRPLANE
6. Stress two-word verbs more strongly on
the second word but for their noun
equivalent stress them on the first part
Noun Verb
Printout he Printed it OUT
Checkout Can I Check it Out
Setup Set up a meeting for you
 Intonation
Is the tune or melodic pattern of what you say. It
connected with the way a person’s voice rises or fall
PITCH- is the degree of lowness and highness of voice
VOLUME- the softness and loudness of words being
uttered
PITCH EXAMPLES

Low Pitch I went Home last night.

The boys took a bath at
the river near our house

High Pitch Are you coming home?

Will you take me for a
ride?
Am I beautiful?
Extra High Pitch Oh my God! The boy fell
from the clip
Snake! Snake! Snake!
 3 BASIC INTONATION
PATTERN
A.Rising falling intonation
B.Rising Intonation
C.Non-Final Intonation
 Rising falling Intonation
a. Fact
b. Command or Request
c. Information Question
STATEMEN She is a woman.
T OF FACT We are friends
The doors are open
COMMAND Get the new ball.
OR Help him finish this work.
REQUEST Arrange the room.
Please say the correct answer.
Kindly be early tomorrow
INFORMAT Where do you live?
ION What is your course?
QUESTION When are you coming home?
How can I reach you?
Who stays home tonigh?
Rising Intonation
The voice begins in the normal tone
and ends with a high tone.
1.Did you arrange the room?

2. Is the girl a dancer?

3. Are you coming to class early?
4. Could you get here using the motorcycle?
5. Can you climb this cliff?
6. Would you take here to the concert tonight?
7. Does your mother permits you to visit me?
ACTIVITY: Identify the following stress of the following words:

Active Dependable Methodical Discreet consistent

Realistic Adaptable Efficient Analytical Talented

Independent Reliable Systematic Sincere Pleasant

Diplomatic Logical Imaginative Objective Fair

Alert Diciplined Aggressive Energetic Creative

Respectful Ambitious Resourceful conscientiou

s
mature Self-reliant Loyal enterprising