Pronouncing to clearly

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reduction I did

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not do the word to usually has the schah

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sound in it and instead I left in the

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vowel o to to I usually reduce the word

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to in conversation t t t I did not do it

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here because I was talking into the

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camera and I've noticed that I do use

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fewer reductions when I'm recording than

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I do in normal

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conversation to UCB to UCB to UCB for a

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comedy show for a comedy show I most

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definitely reduced this vowel to the

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schah f f f f f so I also connected that

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word very much so to the article a which

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is also pronounced as the schah for f

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for for for a comedy show for for a

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comedy show for a comedy show Let's test

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your listening skills for stress the

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word comedy is a three- syllable word

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which did you hear as being the most

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stressed comedy comedy

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comedy it's the first syllable

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so the last two syllables are lower in

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pitch and flatter also maybe a little

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quieter than the stressed syllable midi

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midi midi