Sentence stress and pitch

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word

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which will usually be stressed in a

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sentence again in the was very quick

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West and Village were both stressed as

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was afterwards but they had less curve

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to the voice they were less stressed to

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me than the word stay which was louder

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we may stay in the West Village

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afterwards I noticed that I did not

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reduce the word or that's one word that

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can reduce

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to or we may or we may but here I said

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or we may or we may I did not reduce the

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vowel or we may hop on our bikes or we

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may hop on our bikes or we may hop on

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our

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bikes we may hop on our bikes what do

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you think is the loudest most stressed

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word in that sentence fragment we may

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hop on our bikes we may hop on our bikes

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we may hop on our bikes

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I hear hop again the

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verb we may hop on our bikes and go up

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to UCB and go up to UCB I definitely

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reduce the word and here by dropping the

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D and go up to UCB and go up and go up

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and go up again here the word up I did

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not release the P sound I made that a

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stop up to up to again a reduction I did

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not do