Word Stress - Part 2 | English Pronunciation - The 8 rules of word stress

Billie English - the YouTube channel to help you improve your English pronunciation, speaking and fluency! Billie is a certified CELTA English teacher trainer and has over 17 years of teaching experience. This video is the second of two videos on word stress. Please watch Part 1 first as it gives you the introduction to this topic (see link below). In this video, Part 2, we are going to have a look at why word stress is so important and how incorrect word stress can distort the pronunciation of a word so listeners might not recognise it or misunderstand you.

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0:00 Why is word stress important? - desert vs. dessert
4:55 Rule 1: Common Nouns & Adjectives with 2 syllables
6:48 Rule 2: Common Verbs with 2 syllables
8:04 Rule 3: Contrastive Word Stress in Nouns & Verbs
10:23 Rule 4: Are prefixes and suffixes stressed?
13:51 Careful: Adding suffixes can move the word stress!
15:23 Rule 5: Compound Nouns
16:24 Rule 6: Compound Adjectives
17:58 Rule 7: Word stress in Phrasal Verbs
21:16 Rule 8: Where is the stress in abbreviations?
22:41 Commonly mispronounced words
25:10 Quiz Time! True or false?

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This video is the second of two videos on word stress. Please watch Part 1 first as it gives you the introduction to this topic (see link below). In this video, Part 2, we are going to have a look at why word stress is so important and how incorrect word stress can distort the pronunciation of a word so listeners might not recognise it or misunderstand you. Then we are going to have a look at the 8 rules of word stress and words that are often mispronounced. Last but not least, there is a little test for you!

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Billie is a pronunciation coach and content creator based in Barcelona, Spain. Her main focus is English pronunciation, phonology and helping learners speak more fluently. Billie has a degree in Communication Research & Phonology, a PGCE in Primary Education, a Trinity College Cert & DiplomaTESOL and over 17 years of teaching experience. She also works as a CELTA teacher trainer, Cambridge examiner and educational advisor. Her videos have been featured in the Google funded AI app ELSA speak.

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[Beatles-Forever]

Hi teacher, from Argentina. I find your videos very useful! I want to ask you if the word "ADJECTIVE" is stressed on the first or second syllable? many thanks for considering my request 😀

[muhammadiftikhar]

Madam Pl video on Prefixes and Suffixes list...

[gurbanifoundation]

Is lunchtime not a compound adjective e.g. lunch-time rest? In that case, the rule was to stress the second syllable i.e. time rather than lunch. Pl guide.

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[muhammadmushtaq]

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In word repond the stress should be before P.. Like in transcription rIs'pand

[haripurushothaman]

Mam, I've seen somewhere else that apple should be broken down as ap-ple, happy as hap-py and so on. That is double letter should be equally parted to the two syllable🤔

[finik]

I’m a bit confused. The words apple and table are two-syllable really? You explained in the previous videos that we count quantity of syllables on quantity of vowel sounds in words. These example words have only one. Please, could you clarify this issue?