hi this is Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's
question is how do I pronounce the word recognize and how do I add the suffixes
ED ing and TI o n let's go ahead and take a look at my little chart that
I made for you here right here you're gonna see numbers which I typically
don't have on my directions and the words but the reason I have them here is
because that is going to tell you how many syllables we have in each word so
let's start with the root word recognize three beats three syllables wreck ug
nize now the key here is that we are going to stress syllable 1 so even
though that is a short vowel in that syllable we're going to hold that vowel
a little tiny bit longer we're gonna make that syllable a little bit higher
in pitch and we're also going to make that syllable a little bit louder so
recognize recognize recognize now when we add the e D to this word if you're
interested in this rule I actually have a class on how to pronounce ED endings
so you can check that out if you have more questions but here because the word
ends in a Z sound which is voiced we're going to end that word when we add the e
D with a D sound because the D is also voiced this is not going to add another
syllable we're just going to add that extra sound on to the end of the word so
again we're going to stress syllable 1 and then we're going to make sure that
we just add that D sound to the end of the word so wreck recognized recognized
recognized now for recognizing what happens here is when you add that ing it
actually is another beat in the word so let's listen to that
Rek ug nize zing so you have four beats there again syllable number one is
stressed rec recognizing recognizing recognizing so let's listen to all those
words again recognize recognized recognizing now you will hear slight
differences with the syllables and the lengths of the vowels in each of those
syllables because if you've watched my classes on word stress you know that as
words get longer and have more syllables we have to shorten some of the vowels
even though it's exactly the same vowel because we only have a certain amount of
time to say that word so let's listen to those three words again recognize
recognized recognizing lastly we have the word recognition this word really
throws people off because we shift the syllable stress to the syllable before
the tion so I have a class on this concept as well if you want to take a
look at that so this word is going to have four beats four syllables but we're
going to shift the word stress from the rack to the Ni that's why I have it
underlined and in capital letters so let's take a look at the syllables wreck
ug ni tion recognition recognition recognition I'm going to say all the
words in order now recognize recognized recognizing recognition so give it a try
I know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful we
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