Schwa also occurs in the following words endings.
-ous, as in dangerous, autonomous
-ion, as in television, vision, appreciation, information, pollution
-ate (adjective endings), as in private, accurate, intimate, desolate
2.) High front unrounded vowel is also found as an unstressed vowel. There are various spellings.
in word final position ending ending with “y” or “ey” as in hungry, witty, happy, bony, creepy, funny, valley, chimney.
Syllabic consonant
A syllabic consonant is a phonetic element that normally patterns as a consonant, but may fill a vowel slot in a syllable.
Syllabic is the most common syllabic consonant which gives unstressed sound for example
poodle : crystal
noodle : / social
little / vital /
channel / tunnel
puddle /
Syllabic is the most frequently consonant found and important of the syllabic nasals. Here are examples.
button
fasten
brighten
LEVELS OF STRESS
For this part, level of stress in simple words is demonstrated. Although it is artificial to learn levels of stress in isolation, it helps a lot to see levels of stress more clearly than look at them in context and connected speech.
For example the word, about, the stress falls on the second syllable and the first syllable is perceived as a weak syllable. To this, we can hear aBOUT louder in duration and higher in pitch. Stress in English word can be divided into three level distinctions which are primary stress, secondary stress and unstress.
Primary stress refers to the prominence that gives the strongest type of stress. The stress symbol ( ‘ ) is marked in front of the stressed syllable in a dictionary.
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