In the phonetic transcription of the word, the syllable that comes after ‘ is the stressed syllable. You can check the stress of a word by looking for the apostrophe mark ‘. If you get the stress wrong (and you stress the wrong syllable, for example) the other person might not understand you. In words with more than one syllable, you need to know which syllable has the main stress – and which syllables are not stressed. Word stress is a vital element of English pronunciation. Clear and accurate definitions which assume no prior knowledge of the subject matter helpful diagrams and tables cross references throughout, linking related subject areas for. Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics - Jack C. This means that when you find a new word, you can work out how to say it, sound by sound. now is Technical English 3 Pearson Longman below. The vowels are divided into short, long, and dipthongs (which are two vowel sounds together). The pronunciation table shows you consonants and vowels. So /b/ is the sound as in “back”, /e/ is the sound as in “bed”,and /d/ is the sound as in “day”. Here you can see the pronunciation of every sound.

Go to the beginning of the dictionary (in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English – the one I use – it’s inside the jacket cover) to see the pronunciation table. So for example, next to the word ‘bed’ you will see the phonetic transcription /bed/. To find out how to say the word, look at the phonetic transcription of the word (which you can see right next to the word itself in the dictionary). This means you can find out how to say the word – even if you don’t have access to either a native speaker, or the audio of the word. It shows you the phonetic pronunciation of every word

An English dictionary helps your pronunciation in two main waysġ.

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