Hi it's Jennifer from Tarle speech with your heteronym pronunciation lesson.
We have one common word today and one word that's not as common. But
um you do hear this word especially with garbage in the United States. So we have
refuse which is the verb meaning to deny. And we have refuse which is a noun meaning garbage.
So common rule again we've talked about this many weeks in a row,
for words that are spelled the same, one is a noun one is a verb, we typically stress most
all of the time syllable number one in the noun, and syllable number two in the verb.
So that's very common in two-syllable noun and verb heteronym pairs.
To say the word refuse we are going to start with that R - R. Tip of the
tongue is down or flipped back. Back of the tongue just needs to be high
up. Think about square tense lips and not touching your tongue to your teeth. Okay.
Then we are going to move, whoops, sorry. We're going to move to that short e sound. To do that
your mouth is slightly open. You're going to see the tip of the tongue just between the top and
the bottom teeth. It's not touching anywhere. It's just flat in the middle of your mouth.
This is different than the long e in re. And to do that smile. Your tongue is going to be nice
high and tense and flat for that re. Next we're going to move to that F sound. It's
the same in both words. Gently touch the teeth. Kind of bite either the bottom lip
inside or outside with the teeth. Air moves out of the mouth. Then we're going to move
to that ew by puckering. Tongue is just flat in the middle of the mouth for refuse.
We're going to end in an S sound. The tip of your tongue is either pointed down or just behind the
top teeth, air continuously moves out of your mouth, your voice box is off and it is not moving.
fus fus fus
Now for fuse you're going to move your mouth in the same way. A z is made in the exact same spot
where you make an S. Tip of the tongue is down or just behind the top teeth. The difference is the
voice box is on and moving. fuse fuse fuse
When you have a voiceless and a voiced sound after a vowel, the vowels might sound slightly
different. Because the vowel before the S which is unvoiced will sound a tiny bit shorter
and the vowel before the Z which is voiced will sound a sound a tiny bit longer.
Okay so let's put these all together. We have:
refuse refuse refuse refuse refuse refuse
Let's think about the stress:
number one for refuse refuse refuse and two for refuse refuse refuse
refuse refuse
And now for a sentence: If you do not separate your
garbage correctly, the refuse collector may refuse all of your garbage and recycling.
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