美式英語正音訓練第54期:音節重音

Syllable Stress

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Syllable Count Intonation Patterns

In spoken English, if you stress the wrong syllable, you can totally lose the meaning of a word:

"MA-sheen" is hardly recognizable as "ma-SHEEN" or machine.

At this point, we won't be concerned with why we are stressing a particular syllable— that understanding will come later.