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12. American Intonation: What They Don’t Teach You In School

The InFluency Podcast

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The Glass Is on the Table

In English, actually, in any language, the words are divided into two main groups, content words and function words. Stressed words are higher in pitch and longer, higher in pitch. So they get a higher note, tara. And now I'm going to talk about all three elements, melody, word, stress, and rhythm. Let's first recognize what are the content words. We have glass and table, two nouns, and these are the words that I'm Going to stress in the sentence.

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