Silent e long vowel words
Mastering ‘Silent e’ and Becoming More Fluent with Michael, Third Grader
Literacy terms
Multisensory instruction: Instruction that engages more than one sense at a time to help students learn. A multisensory activity can include seeing, talking, hearing, moving, and touching.
‘Silent e’ spelling pattern: A single vowel letter followed by a consonant and then an ‘e’ usually spells a long vowel sound. For example, make, theme, nice, bone, cute. The ‘e’ and the preceding vowel together spell the long vowel sound. At the end of a multisyllable word, the silent e may spell a long vowel (e.g. parade, delete, beehive, remote, perfume) or a schwa sound (e.g., palace, cursive, lettuce).
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Linda Farrell is a founding partner at Readsters, an Alexandria, VA-based firm that helps schools implement research-based reading instruction. She is committed to effective early reading instruction to help struggling readers become strong readers, and to ensure that strong readers achieve their full potential.
Linda works in schools throughout the U.S. training and coaching teachers and modeling effective reading instruction. She also has designed curricula in Niger and Senegal for children to learn to read in their local languages.
Linda is a former English teacher and she was a National LETRS trainer for seven years. She has co-authored assessments and curricula for teaching reading, as well as several other published works. Linda can be reached at: [email protected]
Transcript
Mastering ‘Silent e’ and Becoming More Fluent with Michael, Third Grader
[Music]
Michael: I couldn’t find my house.
Linda Farrell: When you went back, you couldn’t find your house?
Michael: No.
Michael is in third grade at Windy Hill Elementary School in Calvert County, Maryland. Reading expert Linda Farrell will be helping him work toward mastering the ‘silent e’ letter pattern. It’s part of a plan to speed up his reading.
Linda Farrell: When we assessed Michael, I found him to be a very interesting student. He’s in the third grade, and he’s a very slow reader. He was quite accurate … not perfectly accurate, but he did pretty well in text. And he understood what he read.
Linda Farrell: Just start reading right here, and you’re gonna read right to the number, okay?
Michael: Don was a lad. Pip was a pup. Don and Pip had a run. The sun was hot.
Linda Farrell: Okay …
Linda Farrell: And when we dug deeper into Michael, what we found is that he has almost mastered basic skills. But it’s the almost that’s keeping him from being faster and more accurate. The good thing about him is that he’s not a guesser. That’s why he’s slow. He’s trying to get it right. He’s not trying to race through and guess.
Michael can read many words accurately. But he reads slowly. To find out why, Ms. Farrell first checks to make sure that Michael knows his vowel sounds, both long and short.
Linda Farrell: What’s the short ‘a’ sound?
Michael: Short ‘a’ … /a/.
Linda Farrell: /a/. What’s the short ‘e’ sound?
Michael: /eh/
Linda Farrell: What’s the short ‘i’ sound?
Michael: /i/
Linda Farrell: The short ‘o’ sound?
Michael: /ah/
Linda Farrell: And the short ‘u’ sound?
Michael: /u/
Linda Farrell: You do know your vowel sounds — your short vowel sounds. Do you know your long vowel sounds?
Michael: [nods]
Linda Farrell: What are they?
Michael: /ay/, /ee/, /eye/, /oh/, and /you/
Linda Farrell: You got it. Okay.
Then she checks Michael’s phonemic awareness. That’s his ability to notice, to think about, and to work with the individual sounds in words.
Linda Farrell: Now we’re gonna stretch a couple of words, okay? The way you stretch words is you go like this. Get ready. Okay, sit up straight and get ready. Okay? I’ll say a word and you repeat it. Bake.
Michael: Bake.
Linda Farrell: Okay. Now we stretch it. /b, ay, k/ … bake. You stretch it.
Michael: /b, ay, k/ … bake
Linda Farrell: Okay. And I’m gonna ask you what’s the vowel sound in bake. Do you know the vowel sound in bake?
Michael: /ay/
Linda Farrell: /ay/. And what do we call that vowel sound? Short ‘a’ or long ‘a’?
Michael: Long ‘a.’
Linda Farrell: Great. Ready? Back. Repeat?
Michael: back
Linda Farrell: Stretch back.
Michael: /b, a, k/ … back
Linda Farrell: What’s the vowel sound in back?
Michael: ‘a’
Linda Farrell: ‘A’ is the name of the letter. Can you stretch back?
Michael: /b, a/ …
Linda Farrell: Stop right there. What’s that sound right there?
Michael: /a/
Linda Farrell: /a/. When I ask you for a sound, it has to be one of the sounds on your fingers. So the vowel sound in back is what?
Michael: /a/
Linda Farrell: What do we call that sound?
Michael: Short ‘a.’
Linda Farrell: Ready?
Linda Farrell: Even though Michael knew his short vowel sounds and he knew his long vowel sounds when I asked — pretty well for somebody who hadn’t really been having phonics lessons. And he could, I’d say stretch the sounds, /b/ /i/ /t/. He could stretch that. “What’s the vowel sound in bit?” “‘I. ’” He wanted to go and give me the letter, which tells me he’s not thinking in terms of sounds. We have to straighten out all that. What’s the sound? What’s the name of the letter? What do we call the sound? And we worked with some of that with him so that when I went to this is an /a/, and this is an /ay/, he could think in terms of sounds.
Linda Farrell: Tight. Repeat.
Michael: Tight.
Linda Farrell: Stretch.
Michael: /t, eye, t/ … tight
Linda Farrell: What’s the vowel sound in tight?
Michael: /eye/
Linda Farrell: What do we call it?
Michael: A long ‘i.’
Linda Farrell: Ready? Fish.
Michael: /f, i, sh/ … fish
Linda Farrell: Vowel sound?
Michael: /i/
Linda Farrell: What do we call it?
Michael: Short ‘i.’
Linda Farrell: You got it. You’re getting it aren’t you?
Next Ms. Farrell has Michael read a passage containing consonant-vowel-consonant words like hat and ran, further checking that short vowel knowledge.
Linda Farrell: Try the gray box.
Michael: Don got a tan hat. He sat on a log. He had a nap in the sun.
Linda Farrell: I think this is just a little teeny tiny bit too easy for you. So we have to get harder.
Michael: Yeah, it was really easy.
Linda Farrell: It was.
But when Ms. Farrell gave Michael a passage with the ‘silent e’ vowel pattern – including words like ‘luke’ and ‘rice’ – his accuracy fell off.
Linda Farrell: Now I’m just gonna ask you to read this right here. Okay?
Michael: Mike went to a lake with luck. They rode, rode their bikes to the lake. They had rick, I mean, rike, lim, limes, chips, and cake in a blackpack.
Linda Farrell: A student who can tell you /i/ is the short ‘i’ sound, /eye/ is the long ‘i’ sound, can tell you all the rules, and yet they don't read it correctly, the word correctly — that's often a result of a slow print processor. What happens is ... when print gets there, they have a slow reaction time to pulling out what that print is trying to say, whatever sound, whatever word.
Michael can get faster by fully absorbing and mastering the ‘silent e’ spelling pattern, so that when he sees a word with a vowel, a consonant, and an ‘e’ at the end – such as lake — he automatically knows that the vowel will be long. How can he master this?
Linda Farrell: Not teaching him rules. He knows the rules. I didn't ask him, but he could have told me the rule that ‘e’ jumps over. What we do is get him to recognize the pattern. If it's one letter, it's a short sound. If it's that letter plus an ‘e,’ it's a long sound. And we're trying to get him to recognize the pattern.
Linda Farrell: Now I’m going to do some teaching. And I’m gonna see if you can get this 100% next time, if you can get all the words right. And here is the teaching we’re gonna do. We are going to learn about ‘silent e. ’ I bet you’ve heard ‘silent e’ before, haven’t you. Okay. So we’re gonna learn something called two-finger touch and say. So when you touch with one finger, you’re gonna say /a/. That’s the short ‘a’ sound, so touch with one finger. Are you — if you were to write your name, yeah. So touch with this finger, okay?
Michael: Okay. /a/
Linda Farrell: Okay. When we touch like this, we’re gonna say /ay/. When it’s an ‘a’ and an ‘e’ together, go /ay/. Can you do that?
Michael: /ay/
Linda Farrell: Okay, so go …
Michael: /a/, /ay/
Linda Farrell: Now watch me touch and say this word. /M, a, d/ … mad. You do it.
Michael: /M, a, d/ … mad.
Linda Farrell: So I used one finger to touch that ‘a.’ Now watch this. I have an ‘a’ and an ‘e’ here. So I’m gonna use two fingers, so watch me. /M, ay, d/ … made. You do it.
Michael: /M, ay, d/ … made.
Linda Farrell: Okay, and you go like this: /m, ay, d/ … made. You do it.
Michael: /M, ay, d/ … made.
Linda Farrell: Okay. So you know about two-finger touch and say.
Ms. Farrell thinks this multisensory technique will help Michael internalize his ability to recognize the ‘silent e’ letter pattern. It takes a while to learn this approach, but it will be worth it.
Linda Farrell: Now, we’re gonna just practice, right here. So I want you to practice saying /ay/, /a/, /ay/, /a/, /a/, /ay/. Okay.
Michael: /ay/, /a/, /ay/, /a/, /a/, /ay/
Linda Farrell: Let’s do this one again. Okay?
Michael: /a/, /ay/, /a/, /a/, /a/, /ay/, /ay/, /a/, /ay/, /a/
Linda Farrell: Ten out of 10. Okay. Now what we’re gonna do is we are gonna practice touch and say. So can you touch and say that word?
Michael: Rat.
Linda Farrell: Okay. And here’s how we touch and say. /R, a, t/ … rat. /R, ay, t/ … rate. You do it.
Michael: /R, a, t/ … rat.
Linda Farrell: Touch and say that one. Now what do you do when you have an ‘a’ and a …
Michael: /R, ay, t/ … rate.
Linda Farrell: Okay. Touch and say that one again.
Michael: /R, a, t/ … rat.
Linda Farrell: Okay.
Michael: /R, ay, t/ … rate.
Linda Farrell: Try that one again.
Michael: /R, ay, t/ … rate.
Linda Farrell: Okay. Now we’re gonna try something a little different. This time I’m just gonna go /a/, rat, /ay/, rate. You do it.
Michael: /a/, rat, /ay/, rate
Linda Farrell: Okay. Try it again.
Michael: /a/, rat, /ay/, rate
Linda Farrell: Okay. Now you’re gonna do these. Just like you did rat and rate, do these. Okay.
Michael: /a/ …
Linda Farrell: Watch me. I’m gonna do this. /Ay/, mate, /a/, mat, /ay/, tape, /a/, rack, /a/, tap, /ay/, rake. You do it.
Michael: /Ay/, mat — mate, /a/, mat …
Linda Farrell: One finger. Do two fingers.
Michael: /Ay/, mate, /a/ …
Linda Farrell: [whispering] One finger.
Michael: /Ay/, tape, /a/, rack, /a/, tap, /ay/, rake.
Linda Farrell: You just got all those right. We’re gonna try something a little different this time. I just want you to touch the vowel sound. Say it. Don’t even read the word. So you’ll go like this: /ay/, /a/. Okay? You do it.
Michael: /ay/, /a/, /ay/, /a/, /a/, /ay/
Linda Farrell: Okay. Can you do that one more time? I wanna make sure you’re touching with one finger when you should and two fingers …
Michael: /a/ …
Linda Farrell: Wait, wait.
Michael: /Ay/. Wait. /Ay/, /a/, /ay/, /a/, /a/, /ay/.
Linda Farrell: Oh! It was perfect. Okay. Now go back and touch with two fingers and then read the word. Okay. And, uh, down here.
Michael: /Ay/, mat — mate.
Linda Farrell: Start again.
Michael: /Ay/, mate…
Linda Farrell: Go /ay/, mate …
Michael: /Ay/, mate, /a/, mat …
Linda Farrell: [whispering] One finger. One finger.
Michael: /A/, mat, /ay/, tape, ra- … /a/, rack, /a/, tap, /ay/, rake.
Linda Farrell: Okay …
Linda Farrell: That skill is recognizing spelling patterns. It is incredibly important, because many people will tell you the English language is nutso. It — sometimes a letter is spelled this way and sometimes the letter is spelled that way. And the English language is not nutso. It follows patterns. It follows lots of patterns. Most of the time in a one syllable word when you have a vowel and then you have a consonant and an ‘e’ at the end, that vowel is going — with that ‘e’ — is going to spell the long vowel sound. It’s not random. It is absolutely not random. Strong readers — and especially strong spellers — pick up these patterns automatically. Those who struggle to learn to read or look like they’re struggling, who need more practice really, they don’t pick them up on their own; and that’s where we come in. We’re teachers. That’s when we get to teach as opposed to just guide. So understanding the spelling patterns in English will tell you with about 80% accuracy what that vowel sound should be.
Linda Farrell: See if you can do that whole row … 10 words. And you’re gonna do /ay/ and then read the word. Okay? And make sure you get your fingers right. You can go slowly. I don’t care how fast you go.
Michael: /a/, stack …
Linda Farrell: Let’s try that — what happened? What happens when you …
Michael: …/ay/, stake, /a/, stack …
Linda Farrell: [whispering] Touch that with one finger.
Michael: … /a/, stack …
Linda Farrell: What?
Michael: … /a/, mad, /ay/ — wait, I mean /a/, fat, /ay/, made.
Linda Farrell: You would see, even though he knew the word was shake, he would read shack, then he'd say, “No, shake,” because he wants that word to come out before his brain has processed. One of the things we would want to do if we were working with him long term is get him to slow down first, because if he'd slow down, he would eventually get faster, because he would be in the habit of doing things accurately. And he would be using the patterns. He has every ability to be an accurate reader if he can recognize the patterns — and to read at a reasonable rate.
So Ms. Farrell focuses on accuracy, knowing that speed will come later, once Michael has really mastered the skill.
Linda Farrell: That was 100% perfect. High five on this one, too. Okay, now you’re gonna read some — you don’t have to do the /ay/, /a/. You just read the words.
Michael: Okay.
Linda Farrell: Okay? Okay. So what, what line do you wanna do?
Michael: I wanna do that one.
Linda Farrell: Okay. Do number four.
Michael: Shad, glade, same, Sam, pane.
Linda Farrell: Okay. Now we’re gonna go back to that passage that we just read. Let’s see if you can read it again. Go.
Michael: Mike went to a lake with Luke. They rode their bikes to the lake. They had rice.
Linda Farrell: What you saw is that once we taught Michael how to read long and short ‘a,’ he applied it in the paragraph the next time. And we didn’t have him read a new paragraph. We had him read the same paragraph. Once he reads that paragraph accurately, we’re going to go to another one. But if it takes him 10 times to read that paragraph accurately, we’re going to keep reading that paragraph accurately, applying his new skill that he had used.
Michael: They also had Coke to drink.
Linda Farrell: 30 out of 30. You got 30 out of 30
Linda Farrell: He made an improvement. And had we had more time, I think we would have seen him making even more improvement as he practiced. Michael was a real good example of the importance and necessity of practicing to mastery. Even though he’s in the third grade, we need to make sure that we get his basic phonics and his even advanced phonics straightened out and that he’s accurate at those, automatically.
[Music]
We’d like to thank the wonderful students and families at Windy Hill Elementary School in Calvert County, Maryland. We hope that sharing these experiences will help other children who are learning to read.
Special thanks also to Kelly Cleland, Julie Donovan, Joanne Harbaugh, and their outstanding colleagues at Windy Hill Elementary … and to Leanne Meisinger at Calvert County Public Schools.
We are deeply grateful to Linda Farrell, Michael Hunter, and Nicole Lubar of Readsters for their invaluable contributions to this project.
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Edited by Christian Lindstrom
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Camera: Richard Chisolm
Audio: Dwayne Dell
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Long Vowel - Silent e Lesson Plan
Objectives:
- Students will recognize and pronounce words that follow the c-v-c-e and v-c-e rule where the first vowel is a long vowel and the final e is silent.
- Students will be able to spell and write simple long vowel words with c-v-c-e and v-c-e spelling patterns.
About the Concept:
There are several regular long vowel spelling patterns in the English language. The c-v-c-e pattern (consonant-vowel-consonant-final e) is a long vowel spelling pattern which occurs quite frequently in early reading and spelling. Basically, the phonics rule for this pattern states that when a vowel and a final e are separated by a single consonant, the first vowel is long and the final e is silent. Some words that follow this rule are cake, scene, kite, hope, and rude. The c-v-c-e pattern occurs most frequently when the long vowel is a, i, and o and less frequently when the first vowel is e or u. The song Silent e (Sing Your Way Through Phonics Volume 1) teaches children how the vowel sound can change from a short vowel sound to a long vowel sound when a silent e is added to the end of a word. For example the short i in hid changes to a long i in hide, the short o in hop changes to the long o in hope, the short u in cut changes to the long u in cute, and the short a in cap changes to the long a in cape.
By continually alternating between the rule and examples of the rule, the song Silent e helps students apply the long vowel -silent e rule in their reading and writing. Other long vowel spelling patterns are covered in the Sing Your Way Through Phonics Vol. 2 song, Spelling Choices. Be sure to read the “Extensions” section below for additional silent e activities and for additional words with c-v-c-e patterns.
Materials:
- Sing Your Way Through Phonics Volume 1 CD, Tracks 17 and 18 (Listen to audio sample)
- Sing Your Way Through Phonics Volume 1 Mini-Charts (pp. 74-85)
- Optional: Flip Chart, markers, sticky notes
- Optional: card stock, markers, index cards
Note: If you do not have the CD or Mini-Charts, you can still teach this long vowel - silent e spelling pattern lesson plan using the folk tune listed on the Silent e Song Lyrics page. You can create your own mini-charts using the words in bold print letters in each verse of the Song Lyrics.
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Procedure:
- Say, “Today, we are going to learn what happens when we put the letter e on the end of a short vowel word. Point to Sing Your Way Through Phonics Vol. 1 Mini-Chart p. 74 and say, "What is the first word on this page?" (rid) "How does the vowel sound in the word rid?" (/ĭ/) "Is the vowel in the word rid long or short?" (short) "How does the word on the bottom look different?" (It has an e on the end.) "When you add a final e to the word rid, it becomes ride. Is the vowel in the word ride long or short?" (long) How does the vowel sound in the word ride? (/ī/) Point to Mini-Chart p.
75 and say, "What is the first word on this page? (hid) How does the vowel sound in the word hid? (/ĭ/) Is the vowel in the word hid long or short? (short) How does the word on the bottom look different? (It has an e on the end.) When you add a final e to the word hid, it becomes hide. Is the vowel in the word hide long or short? (long) How does the vowel in the word hide sound? (/ī/)
- Point to Mini-Chart p. 76 and say, "What is the first word on this page?" (rod) "How does the vowel sound in the word rod?" (/ŏ/) "Is the vowel in the word rod long or short?" (short) "When you add a final e to the word rod, it becomes rode. Is the vowel in the word rode long or short?" (long) How does the vowel sound in the word rode? (/ō/) Point to Mini-Chart p.
75 and say, "What is the first word on this page? (hop) How does the vowel sound in the word hop? (/ŏ/) Is the vowel in the word hop long or short? (short) When you add a final e to the word hop, it becomes hope. Is the vowel in the word hope long or short? (long) How does the vowel in the word hope sound? (/o/)
- Ask, "So what happens to the vowel when we put a final e on the end of a short vowel word?" (The short vowel becomes long and the e is silent.) Practice reading and saying the vowel sounds in the words on Mini-Chart pp. 78-85: cut /ŭ/, cute /ū/, hug /ŭ/, huge /ū/ [Note that the letter g changes its sound, too.
], cap /ă/, cape /ā/, tap /ă/, tape /ā/, pin /ĭ/, pine /ī/, fin /ĭ/, fine /ī/, pan /ă/, pane /ā/, can /ă/, cane /ā/.
- Play Silent e (Sing Your Way Through Phonics Vol. 1 CD, Track 17), pointing to the Mini-Chart words and asking the children to join in the song as soon as they think they know the words. Joining in the song will be easy because the format remains the same for every verse. Example: "How do you change rid to ride? Silent e. How do you change hid to hide? Silent e.
How do you change rid to ride? How do you change hid to hide? End the word with silent e."
- Say, "Notice that this is an question-and-answer song." Divide the class into two groups. Play CD track 17 again, alternating questions and answers between group 1 and group 2 as follows: (Group 1) How do you change rid to ride? (Group 2) Silent e. (Group 1) How do you change hid to hide?, (Group 2) Silent e. (Group 1) How do you change rid to ride? How do you change hid to hide? (Group 2) End the word with silent e. [Continue in this manner until the song is complete.]
- Play the CD again, and ask Group 1 to sing the part that Group 2 sang and vice versa.
- Review the Long Vowel - Silent e rule aloud together.
"When e is added to a short vowel word, the short vowel becomes long and the final e is silent.
Follow-up:
- Practice singing Silent e daily for a week. Then try singing the song without hearing the words, using the instrumental track (Track 18). Allow different students to point to the Mini-Charts words while singing.
- Help students create other sets of c-v-c-e or c-c-v-c-e words for the song. Make 8 copies of Mini-Chart Template B on p.96 and allow students write in the new sets of words. Examples: sal/sale, pal/pale, quit/quite, bit/bite, not/note, tot/tote, tub/tube, cub/cube, slid/slide, bid/bide, shin/shine, spin/spine.
Place these pages back-to-back in page protectors in a 3-ring binder. Then sing the song with the instrumental version (Track 18).
- Mark the original words and the alternate examples with symbols for short vowels, long vowels, and silent e.
Extensions:
- Introduce the Read-and-Sing Book, Silent E. As readers sing along with the lively song set to the folktune Hinky Dinky Parlez-Vous, they can read the short vowel words and predict the long vowel words before they turn the page to verify their guesses. In this book, characters are in the business of painting signs. At first, only part of the word on the sign is visible. When the page is turned, the complete word is visible. The partial word has a short vowel sound which changes to a long vowel sound when whole word is painted. Children can learn about additional long vowel spelling patterns in the Read-and-Sing book, Talking and Walking.
Keep a few copies of the book at a literacy center equipped with headsets so that students can gain practice in listening, singing, and reading long vowel - silent e words.
- Create a silent e flip chart by covering the final e in each word with a sticky note. Children can read the word without the final e, then flip the sticky note and read the word with the final e.
- Play a sorting game by placing long vowel word cards and short vowel word cards in the appropriate pile. Try selecting words with a theme like animals, foods, adjectives, or names.
Evaluation:
- Students read all the words on Mini-Charts pp.74-85 without assistance.
- Students correctly pronounce vowel patterns e_e, a_e, i_e, o_e, and u_e.
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Emphasis. Type of accent. Place of impact.
Lesson 4: Emphasis. Type of accent. Place of impact.
Stress is the selection of one syllable from a measure. A syllable is distinguished by a relative difference in suprasegmental features between individual syllables tact.
Accent type
According to the method of isolating a syllable from a measure, the stress can be divided into:
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dynamic (expiratory, power) - the syllable is emphasized by the force of exhalation
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quantitative (quantitative) - the syllable is distinguished by longitude
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melodic (musical, tonal) - the syllable is distinguished by the movement of the voice tone.
In fact, there are no pure types of stress, almost always one type is accompanied by another, although one of them prevails.
Dynamic accent is available in Russian, English, Czech and other languages. In Russian, dynamic stress is associated with quantitative stress.
The melodic accent occurs, for example, in Serbo-Croatian, Lithuanian, Chinese, etc.
Dynamic stress is either strong (in Russian, English, etc.) or weak (in Czech, Georgian, etc.)
In highly dynamically stressed languages, almost all the force extruded from the lungs by the jet of air is used to pronounce stressed syllable. Unstressed syllables lack strength, they weaken and change.
Changing the sound of unstressed syllables (primarily their sonorous center) is called reduction .
According to the method of separating a syllable from a measure in Russian strong dynamic stress : vowels in unstressed syllables are reduced, which leads to a variety of vowel sounds (allophones), in which a limited the number of phonemes in the Russian language. The strength of Russian stress is accompanied by duration - the substressed syllable of the Russian word is not only the strongest, but also the longest.
In Czech weak dynamic stress : vowels in unstressed syllables hardly change.
For example: Zá -Mek VE -ool -Cher Zá -IOC for - MK
Duration Vo -pronouncing vowels and is not associated with the dynamism of the stress. (i.e. it is a property segment elements) and does not depend on the stressed or unstressed position. Long vowels are twice as long as short ones.
Duration of the vowel sounds of the PR is not an independent property of segmental elements, it accompanies the force of dynamic stress and is its secondary characteristic. Unstressed vowels are 2-3 times longer than unstressed ones.
So, in the PR there is a strong dynamic stress with a significant quantitative component.
In CN a weak dynamic stress without a quantitative component.
For example:
pa-má-tka
Place of impact
According to the place of the allocated syllable in the word they differ:
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fixed accent (it always happens on a certain syllable - in CN on the first, in French on the last)
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free (different place), which is not associated with a specific place in the word, it falls on any syllable, for example, in RL, in English. lang.
Free accent has two subtypes:
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free permanent i.e. in different forms of a given word, the stress always falls on the same syllable (in English, in most words in RL)
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free movable i.
e. in different forms of this word, the stress falls on different syllables (for example, in some Russian words - mo-re - mo-r i , pi-shu - p and -shesh).
In RL, the stress is free, mobile and has the function of a semantic-distinctive, phonological means: lock - lock, pi-li - pi-whether. In SN, the stress is fixed and cannot acquire a phonological function.
But the mobility of Russian stress is limited, in most Russian words the stress is constant .
Each independent word of the Russian language has, as a rule, one stress . Functional and in a few cases also some independent words do not have stress on themselves and are adjacent to the neighboring word as proclitic or enclitic .
Enclitics of are some particles, for example: tell me, the teacher said . .., sometimes they can be independent words, for example: didn’t give, didn’t live, take by the hair, etc.
Proclitics of are usually monosyllabic prepositions, conjunctions, particles, etc. prepositions in combination with definite nouns sometimes shift the stress onto themselves (the next word becomes unstressed, enclitic). For example: on the head, by the hand, by the hand, without a trace ... (in CH this applies to almost all prepositions).
Two-syllable and three-syllable auxiliary words are either unstressed or slightly impacted (with lateral accent), e.g. in an hour or in an hour.
Polysyllabic words formed by the addition of two or more stems have, along with the main stress, one more (or more) - secondary . The main stress always falls on the stressed syllable of the last stem of a polysyllabic word, side ones are closer to its beginning, e. g., Far Eastern, radio broadcast. Compound words, small in volume, do not have collateral stress: locomotive, gardener.
Exercise
Exercise 4.1
Read, Follow the change in stress in related words
GOGROD - Gorod - Goroda - City - City - Zathorodny
Hold - Khulodnov - cold - cool 9000,0002 g - Golos - Golos - Golosa - Golosa - Golosa - Golosa - Golosa - Golosa - Golosa - echo
Frost - frost - frost and lo - in s frost - frosty
Collar - gate - gate - collar - collar
Beard - beards - chin - wart
Work - earnings - earned - in s worked
Gold - gold and clear - gold - gold plated
Crow - crow - crow - crow - crow
Exercise 4.2
Tear off - | apply - | shoot - | |||
Blind and - | sketch - | break off | |||
Cut - | underweight - |
Exercise 4.
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Form the words of this rhythmic pattern
tá–ta
ta–tá
ta–ta–tá
ta–tá–ta
tá–ta–ta
, steamboat, composer, album, ravine, apparatus, vegetables, room, motor vehicle, dog, road, rock, head, beard, wasp, window, stop, chrysalis, grandmother, father, sister, medicine, patronymic, shore, no place, under the window, in the forest, on the table, under the snow, near the house, near the city, above the door, across the field, across the river.
Exercise 4.5
Read, pay attention to stress and correct pronunciation
Century - century, body - body, business - business, forest - forests, color - colors
Five - Friday and , took - took, removed - took off, pull - chan and .
Literature
The lesson was prepared using the following literature:
Theoretical part
[1]Oliverius, Z.