Strong and weak syllables

Fill in the gap with ONLY ONE WORD

/i/ is found in the word ‘the’ when ‘the’ precededs a (a)   .

Fill in the gap with ONLY ONE SOUND

Close front unrounded vowel (a)   could be found in suffixes spelt ‘iate’, ‘ious’.

All weak syllables contain ə ("schwa")

• true

• false

Which vowel cannot appear in a word as a weak syllable?

• /ə/

• /i/

• /ɑː/

• /u/

This is the ____ structure of a syllable in English.

• grammatical

• syntactical

• phonetical

• phonological

Choose a word with different stress

• photograph

• radio

• infuence

• employment

What are syllabic consonants?

• /m/, /n/, /ŋ̩/, /l/, /r/

• /ə/, /ŋ̩/, /l/, /r/

• /i/ /u/ /ɪ/

• /m/, /n/, /l/, /r/

Differences between strong and weak syllables

• length, loudness, quality

• vowels and consonants

• length, stress, intensity

• intensity, loudness, quality

Choose the word that has the primary stress different from that of the other words.

• incapable

• attraction

• humorous

• unselfish

Choose the word that has the primary stress different from that of the other words.

• submit

• summit

• suppose

• support