Expert pronunciation: rhythm, linking and attitude
Be easy to follow at length: stress the words that matter, weaken the small ones, move stress across word families, speak in thought groups, link words, and use stress and tone to show what you think.
11 min
Module 30 · Lesson 4 of 5
In this lesson
- Stress content words, weaken small words and speak in thought groups.
- Move word stress correctly across word families such as economy and economic.
- Use contrastive stress and tone to show a correction or an attitude.
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