From Dr Geoff Lindsey.

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The stresses shown in dictionaries are so often different from the reality of English speech. To understand why, we need to unpack stress • accent • rhythm

For animations, a big thankyou to Marta at https://www.youtube.com/@UClYNXZjPPnLhaHVZN_5g9Tg

0:00 Introduction
3:36 ‘Stress Shift’ (Piccadilly)
5:11 Variability (overt/covert)
6:49 Shifted forms getting fixed (Vauxhall)
8:24 Speaker/accent differences (Heathrow)
9:18 Nuclear pitch-accents
11:54 Onset pitch-accents
13:21 Rhythmic beats
16:41 ‘Stress timing’
17:22 Dictionaries
19:16 Messy pretonic syllables
20:28 ‘Fantastic’!