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Anonymous

20:12

I have books that describe this stuff somewhere

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Yay!

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Does she sound BrE in the clip?

Anonymous

I do have the Roach book they cite

Anonymous

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> But we cannot automatically treat the separate grammatical units of other languages as separate grammatical units of English; if we did, we would not be able to study English morphology without first studying the morphology of five or six other languages, and we would be forced into ridiculous analyses such as that the English word 'parallelepiped' was composed of four or five grammatical units (which is the case in Ancient Greek). We must accept, then, that the distinction between "simple" and "complex" words is difficult to draw, and is therefore not always useful.

Anonymous

That's a neat quote

Anonymous

From English Phonetics and Phonology: A practical course, 2nd ed., Roach, p.95

Anonymous

20:19

(I looked up prefix in the index!)

Damkerng T.

Usually, the words that are complex in most people's idea are quite easy in my opinion, apart from the fact that they're usually long.

Anonymous

> Affixes will have one of three possible effects on word stress: i) The affix itself receives the primary stress (e.g. 'semi-' + 'circle' ˈsɜːkl̩ → 'semicircle' ˈsemɪsɜːkl̩; '-ality' + 'person' ˈpɜːsn̩ → 'personality' pɜːsn̩ˈælɪti).

Anonymous

Do those syllablic diacritics render in the right spots? (under l and n)

Anonymous

> ii) The word is stressed just as if the affix was not there [...] iii) The stress remains on the stem, not the affix, but is shifted to a different syllable [...]

Damkerng T.

Sort of. They're a little off to the right.

Anonymous

20:25

Same here. :-(

Anonymous

Q: What is the difference between sing for / sing to me?

Currently i am reading a book called 'Lick' by Kylie Scott I came across the above phrases on pg 89 - 90 where the lead character asks this question or uses expression in the following ways - that are Will you sing for me ? Did you sing to me that night ? Please sing me a song ? I was wonder...