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| karaipyhare Tetraglot Groupie Paraguay Joined 5586 days ago 74 posts - 150 votes  Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1 of 4 28 December 2010 at 3:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been noting recently in some tv shows the words "inteRESted" and "inteRESting" with
the main stress in the penult syllable, instead of what I learnt and have always heard: INtrested INtresting. Is that some kind of dialectical variation? How normal is that for you Americans? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 4 29 December 2010 at 3:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I believe that the main stress is still on IN and that RES receives a secondary stress.
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| Cowlegend999 Groupie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5145 days ago 72 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 3 of 4 29 December 2010 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||
I agree with him. Im from Canada and I've said interesting aloud a few times and I stress the "In". I also seem to put a small stress on the "res" I'm not sure if people from different countries will pronounce it in another way 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 4 of 4 29 December 2010 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
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A 4-syllable word needs a secondary stress. If the vowel in -ter- is pronounced, you get a secondary stress
in RES by default. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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