Stress and Intonation

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These are the videos I posted on the Moodle site for students, for self-study in intonation. All are by the same online teacher, who does a really fabulous job, taking learners into the world of stress patterns with practice sentences like this:

Clients get haircuts.
Clients will get haircuts.
His clients will get haircuts.
His clients will get good haircuts.
All of his clients will get good haircuts.

Jennifer’s lesson 8: Stress patterns
Video a – introduction
Video b – cont.: stress for emphasis
Video c – reading practice

Jennifer’s lesson 9: Advanced Stress Patterns
Video a – follow-up lesson on rhythm
Video b – cont.: emphasis on last content word
Video c – exercises

Jennifer’s lesson 10: Intonation

Video a – introduction
Video b – cont.
Video c – cont.
Video d – exercises

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