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pronunciation? A Guide to Teaching English Pronunciation can help.
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Ellipsis
Sometimes native
English speakers will entirely drop the sound of an unstressed syllable
altogether, and not just reduce the pronunciation to the schwa sound. This is
called an ellipsis. This in effect reduces the number of syllables that a listener may hear. Both pronunciations are
correct. Examples of two such words are
probably and temperature.
Note: Ellipsis's are very common, but not all
speakers will do this.
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Some
people will pronounce
probably
with three syllables
(prob-a-bly), others will pronounce it with two syllables (prob-bly).
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Some
people will pronounce
temperature with four syllables (tem-per-a-ture),
others will pronounce it with three syllables (tem-per-ture). |
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Listen to more ellipses in the words below, focus on the words in bold print. |
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general (gen-e-ral,
gen-ral) |
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business (bus-i-ness, bus-ness) |
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vegetable
(veg-e-ta-ble,
veg-ta-ble) |
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margarine
(mar-gar-ine, mar-grine) |
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evening (e-ven-ing,
ev-ning) |
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An ellipsis
can also
occur (usually in very casual speak) when native speakers drop the beginning of
a word that has a schwa sound in it.
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Listen to and
repeat the following words and sentences, focusing on the words in bold. The
first word in the parenthesis is the syllable separation for the word as found
in a dictionary; the second word in the parenthesis is the syllable separation
when pronounced with an ellipsis. |
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(remember,
'mem-ber)
Remember when we went to the beach last year? |
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(another,
'nother)
Another drink, Mr. Thompson?
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(about, 'bout)
How about going to the movies tonight?
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Other Syllable Pages
Page 1 Syllable Stress
Page 2 Pitch Patterns
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