Edward1989
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- Jul 3, 2013
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Kurdish
- Home Country
- Georgia
- Current Location
- France
Good evening to everyone!
I'm a student of FAL in Paris and we've been studying English phonetics and phonology for a year.
During this summer, I decided to learn main weak and strong forms of grammatical words used in English language.
It's quite easy to use weak forms because we use them a lot in a normal speech. But I've got some problems with the strong forms. In fact, it's written that strong forms should be used in :
a) Accented position
b) Stranded position
c) Exposed position.
Could you explain me, please, what do exposed and stranded positions mean? And also, I'd like to ask you if you know when we generally accent word in English?
I know that negative sentences are always accented and words in the final position are accented as well.
For example:
Weak form: She was brilliant /ʃɪ wəz brɪlɪənt/
Strong form: I wonder what it was /aɪ wʌndə wɒt ɪt wɒz/ = in the final position
..... . She wasn't at home /ʃɪ wɒznt ət həʊm/ = negative sentence
May be someone knows other cases, please?!
Thanks in advance!
I'm a student of FAL in Paris and we've been studying English phonetics and phonology for a year.
During this summer, I decided to learn main weak and strong forms of grammatical words used in English language.
It's quite easy to use weak forms because we use them a lot in a normal speech. But I've got some problems with the strong forms. In fact, it's written that strong forms should be used in :
a) Accented position
b) Stranded position
c) Exposed position.
Could you explain me, please, what do exposed and stranded positions mean? And also, I'd like to ask you if you know when we generally accent word in English?
I know that negative sentences are always accented and words in the final position are accented as well.
For example:
Weak form: She was brilliant /ʃɪ wəz brɪlɪənt/
Strong form: I wonder what it was /aɪ wʌndə wɒt ɪt wɒz/ = in the final position
..... . She wasn't at home /ʃɪ wɒznt ət həʊm/ = negative sentence
May be someone knows other cases, please?!
Thanks in advance!