Hey there Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your question of the week.
We have another heteronym today. These have become very popular and I've gotten a lot of requests.
We have:
alternate the next choice and alternate to switch back and forth
Quick review when you have a heteronym we typically stress the beginning
of the word for a noun and the end of the word for a verb and we see that here.
So for alternate what we are going to do is we are going to stress syllable number one
all all ter nit
all ter nit alternate alternate alternate
Don't forget when we have the stressed syllable that's louder, longer, and higher in pitch;
the other syllables need to be shorter, softer, and lower in pitch.
Then for the verb we have alternate alternate alternate alternate and yes we actually get a
little bit of a different vowel here because that is a longer vowel. It's a little more stressed,
we're going to move our mouth a little more, that makes it all a little bit longer.
alternate alternate alternate alternate
So we have: alternate alternate
alternate alternate alternate alternate
And now for a sentence:
The alternate juror had to alternate between notebooks to review the eyewitness accounts.
Give it a try people are going to notice the difference.
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