Rules for stress in words

1. Rules for stress in words

2. If a word ends with a vowel, n OR s. • If a word ends with a vowel (a/e/i/o/u), n OR s, the stress of the word falls on the SECOND TO LAST syllable. • Exampleschico – CHI co estudiante – e studi AN te libro – LI bro computadora – com puta DO ra

3. If a word ends in any other letter • If a word ends in any other letter, the stress falls on the LAST syllable. • Examples: hablar – hab LAR comercial – co merci AL catedral – ca te DRAL beber – be BER

4. If a word doesn’t follow these rules, there’s un acento. • If a word doesn’t follow the two rules already given, there will be un acentoover the syllable that takes the stress. • Examples: estás – es TAS (you’d think it would be ES tas) simpático - sim PA ti co (not sim pa TI co) teléfono – te LE fo no (not te le FO no) café – ca FE (not CA fe)

5. OJO! • Some words have accents on them that don’t change the stress. They simply differentiate between different uses of the same word. This especially goes for the interrogatives (question words). • Examples de / dé : of / give (command) el / él: the / he que / qué : that / what? cuando / cuándo: when? (¿Cuándoempieza (begins) la clase? La claseempiezacuando el profesorentra.)

6. Review • If a word ends in a vowel, n OR s, the stress falls on the SECOND to last syllable. • If a word ends in any other letter, the stress falls on the LAST syllable. • If a word doesn’t follow these rules, there is an accent that tells you where to place the stress. • Some words have two forms, one with and without accent, used to differentiate between meaning.

7. For the following slides, you will be given words from NEXT year’s Spanish class. Using the rules we’ve learned, decipher how to pronounce them. If you can, count how many syllables each one has.

8. El quehacer (the chore)

9. El quehacer el que ha CER

10. El regalo (the gift)

11. El re GA lo

12. La servilleta (the napkin)

13. La ser vi LLE ta

14. Los demás (the others)

15. Los de MAS

16. La mujer (the woman/wife)

17. La mu JER

18. El orden (the order)

19. El OR den

20. Las soluciones

21. Las so lu CIO nes

22. Peor (worse)

23. Pe OR

24. La presentación (the presentation)

25. La pre senta CION

26. Trabalengas • Now, read the following tongue twisters with your partner, focusing on good pronunciation. Use the rules that we’ve learned. Then try to say them faster!

27. ¡Esmerílemelo! • Polish it for me!

28. ¡Qué triste estás, Tristán, con tan tétrica trama teatral! • How sad you are, Tristán, with such a gloomy theatrical tale.

29. En la población de Puebla, pueblo muy poblado, hay una plaza pública poblada de pueblerinos. • In the city of Puebla, a very populated town, there is a public plaza populated with Pueblans.

30. Ñoño Yáñez come ñame en las mañanas con el niño. • ÑoñoYáñez eats yams in the mornings with the boy.

31. Como poco coco como, poco coco compro. • Since I eat little coconut, little coconut I buy.

32. Review • For the following slides, decipher how to pronounce these words based on the rules we’ve just reviewed.

33. El canal (The channel)

34. El ca NAL

35. El dormitorio (The bedroom)

36. El dor mi TO rio

37. La lámpara (the lamp)

38. La LAM pa ra

39. El pájaro (the bird)

40. El PA jaro

41. Separar (to separate)

42. se pa RAR

43. Verdad (truth/right?)

44. ver DAD

45. La lata (the can)

46. LA ta

47. Impresionante (impressive)

48. im pre sio NAN te

49. Review • In the following slides, decipher how to say the sentences written. You will not know most of the words. Use the rules we’ve just reviewed.

50. Cuandohace sol, llevo los anteojos de sol. • When it’s sunny, I wear sunglasses.