ABSTRACT
Hitherto we have considered the forms of speech that we expect to hear spoken in a slow colloquial style of speech. We have described the ‘ideal’ consonants and vowels as they might occur in isolation, the ‘ideal’ syllable structure and the ‘ideal’ stress structure of words as they occur in this style. We noted in discussing the ‘ideal’ stress structure that even in a very slow, formal, style of speech the un stressed syllables are less explicitly pronounced than the stressed syllables.
