Tag: Intonation
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Stress within a SENTENCE (Weak Forms)
This video is a continuation of my video about stress within a word. This time, I was tasked with making a video about how the placement of stress in a sentence can change the meaning of the sentence. In the video, I went further and explained a feature in the English language called the “weak…
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Stress within a word: How “content” can be different from “content”
For an assignment in a class called “Pronunciation and Intonation 2”, I made a video about how stress placement in a word can change the meaning of the word entirely. Process I started my research for the topic by investigating a statement about word stresses from a book that was used as a resource…
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Schwa (or the ⟨ə⟩ sound) is not what you think it is (maybe)
This video was submitted as my midterm assignment for Pronunciation and Intonation 1, a mandatory subject of study for students in my programme. My instructor tasked the students with creating a video about vowels in the English language. In the video, I expressed my opinions on the Schwa sound (⟨ə⟩) and argued that the transcription…
