Regarding English pronunciation and stress, mark T for
true and F for false.
( ) In standard descriptions of English, the noun record and the verb record may be distinguished by a shift in primary stress.
( ) Unstressed grammatical words may undergo vowel reduction in connected speech, which helps explain pronunciations involving schwa.
( ) Words with similar spelling necessarily preserve the same stressed syllable when derivational suffixes are added.
( ) English spelling provides useful information about pronunciation, but grapheme-to-sound relationships are not consistently one-to-one.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is:
( ) In standard descriptions of English, the noun record and the verb record may be distinguished by a shift in primary stress.
( ) Unstressed grammatical words may undergo vowel reduction in connected speech, which helps explain pronunciations involving schwa.
( ) Words with similar spelling necessarily preserve the same stressed syllable when derivational suffixes are added.
( ) English spelling provides useful information about pronunciation, but grapheme-to-sound relationships are not consistently one-to-one.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is: