Stress in “a lot of”

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vowel

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sounds I also noticed that I hear these

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three words as one unit a lot of a lot

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of with the stress happening on the

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middle

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word a lot of a lot of people ask me I I

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also notice that this word ends in a

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consonant this word begins with a vowel

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there's no punctuation in between a lot

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of people ask and I do hear that L as

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really linking to the beginning vowel

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sound people ask another thing you'll

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want to note as you listen is any sounds

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that you know are difficult for you for

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example many of my students have

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problems integrating the a sound into

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their speech they know how to do it but

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they just don't use it in speech so I

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would definitely if I was one of them

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mark this a

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vowel so that I'll be sure to note it

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and then we'll hopefully begin to

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integrate a into my speech when I see

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this word

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ask a lot of people ask

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me let's keep

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going a lot of people ask me if it's

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possible to sound like a native speaker

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if it's possible to

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sound