Two Syllable Words – Intonation Awareness and Practice

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Two Syllable Words – Intonation awareness and practice

Two-syllable Nouns - second syllable schwa

1. center 8. power 15. pencil 22. jacket 29. cable 36. boredom 2. flower 9. towel 16. basket 23. salad 30. business 37. wisdom 3. profit 10. bottle 17. western 24. carpet 31. lettuce 38. freedom 4. speaker 11. closet 18. eastern 25. ocean 32. tower 39. random 5. knowledge 12. oven 19. northern 26. simple 33. kitchen 40. seldom 6. printer 13. silent 20. southern 27. table 34. forest 41. focus 7. water 14. paper 21. picture 28. hour 35. witness

Two-syllable Nouns - no schwa

42. robot 50. subject 58. yellow 66. curry 74. coffee 82. country 43. accent 51. object 59. fellow 67. hurry 75. window 83. elbow 44. profile 52. suspect 60. Monday 68. conduct 76. city 84. concept 45. coffee 53. format 61. Sunday 69. Tuesday 77. funny 85. content 46. female 54. volume 62. happy 70. Wednesday 78. walnut 86. product 47. invoice 55. vacuum 63. nearly 71. Friday 79. easy 87. metro 48. program 56. pillow 64. hardly 72. Thursday 80. value 88. hollow 49. window 57. willow 65. daisy 73. money 81. service 89. follow

Two Syllable Verbs

90. listen 92. offer 94. enter 96. value 98. study 100. borrow 91. mention 93. profit 95. focus 97. donate 99. narrate 101. follow

Two-syllable adjectives

102. witty 104. healthy 106. crazy 108. lazy 110. pretty 112. spicy 103. cloudy 105. daily 107. hazy 109. weekly 111. monthly 113. little

Intonation Pattern Overview for English Words

A. Two-syllable nouns mostly start high and then fall.

B. Two-syllable verbs that do not use prefixes or suffixes start high and then fall. Here’s an exception: create.

C. Two-syllable adjectives that do not use prefixes or suffixes often start high and then fall.

D. Compound words start high and go low. However, this is not always the case with prepositional compound words.

E. Two-syllable verbs that use prefixes mostly start low and go high.

F. Two-syllable verbs that use suffixes mostly start low and go high.

G. The stress is on the second part of phrasal verbs. We worked OUT an agreement.

H. The stress is usually on the first part of word-preposition combinations. We WORKED on an agreement.

I. Multi-syllable words follow patterns.

J. One-syllable word intonation glides down.

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