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  • Hey there Jennifer from Tarle Speech  with your question of the week.

  • We have another heteronym today. These have become  very popular and I've gotten a lot of requests.

  • We have

  • alternate the next choice and alternate to switch back and forth

  • Quick review when you have a heteronym  we typically stress the beginning  

  • of the word for a noun and the end of  the word for a verb and we see that here.  

  • So for alternate what we are going to do is  we are going to stress syllable number one  

  • all all ter nit 

  • all ter nit alternate alternate alternate

  • Don't forget when we have the stressed syllable  that's louder, longer, and higher in pitch;  

  • the other syllables need to be  shorter, softer, and lower in pitch.

  • Then for the verb we have alternate alternate  alternate alternate and yes we actually get a  

  • little bit of a different vowel here because that  is a longer vowel. It's a little more stressed,  

  • we're going to move our mouth a little  more, that makes it all a little bit longer.

  • alternate alternate alternate alternate

  • So we have: alternate alternate 

  • alternate alternate alternate alternate

  • And now for a sentence:

  • The alternate juror had to alternate between  notebooks to review the eyewitness accounts.

  • Give it a try people are going  to notice the difference.  

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Hey there Jennifer from Tarle Speech  with your question of the week.

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