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Passage: The Art of Slow Reading (academic)

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Passage Sample data

Rhythm and Intonation

Automatic suggestion
  • STRESS stressed word
  • weak usually reduced
  • ‿ linking
  • | pause between thought groups · || end of sentence

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Sentence stress can change the meaning

I wanted the blue one.

Contrasting colour: the blue one, not another colour.

I wanted the blue one.

Contrasting people: I wanted it, not someone else.

Synthetic voices cannot stress words on purpose — record yourself saying both versions and compare.

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