Summary of English Intonation: Deaccenting

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The speaker explains how to properly accentuate words in English by considering the context in which they are spoken. In each example, the word that is being accentuated is different, but the repetition is always deaccented. This difference in accentuation is due to the fact that the scores in the examples are different - when the scores are the same, both words are accentuated, but when the scores are different, the repetition is deaccented.

• 00:00:00 In English, deaccenting is a feature that speakers of most other languages find really difficult. This is done in compounds (where the second word loses its accent) and in phrases ending in numbers (where the main accent is on that number). Deaccenting also occurs in words with a repeated letter (R2D2, for example), in contrast to other languages, where the final letter has the main accent.
• 00:05:00 The speaker explains how to accentuate English words by considering the context in which they are spoken. In each example, the word that is being accentuated is different, but the repetition is always deaccented. This difference in accentuation is due to the fact that the scores in the examples are different - when the scores are the same, both words are accentuated, but when the scores are different, the repetition is deaccented.