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手把手教你学口语03

2011-01-21来源:和谐英语
Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on stressed and unstressed syllables.

Every English word has more than one syllable, and every complete sentence has at least one stressed syllable.

A stressed syllable is pronounced more prominently than surrounding syllables. Simply put, we say it louder and we lengthen the vowel sound. Unstressed syllables are just the opposite. They are not as loud and the vowel sound is usually reduced. Vowel sounds are most often reduced to “э”or to “