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If you are asking whether there is a general rule about which words are stressed and which are unstressed in English, then there is such a "rule." Words that usually have weak stress are called "form words"; words that contribute more to the form of an utterance than to its material sense. The form words in English are articles, conjunctions, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, and modal auxiliaries. Some examples are a, the, but , for, are, is, and, was, are, do, can If, on the other hand, you are asking for a general rule about how to pronounce stressed and unstressed words, there is a general rule for that, too. Words that are relatively unstressed -- that is, those that have weaker stress than nearby words -- are generally pronounced with vowels that are "neutral" rather than clear; vowels that are less readily identifiable as the specific vowels that may differentiate one word from another. Thus, for example, the word "for," when it is unstressed sounds like "fer"; "the" like thuh; "from" like "frum"; "to" like "tuh"; "and" like "n"; "was" like "wuz"; "are" like "r." Saying unstressed words correctly in a flow of speech could be described as a kind of accurate slurring and running words together. For example, the sentence "She was as tall as her brother and a lot smarter," if spoken unnaturally, with fully stressed vowels, would sound something like 'shee 'wahz 'az 'tall 'az 'her 'broth-'er 'and 'a 'lot 'smart'er But spoken conversationally, the sentence would sound more like 'shewuzuz 'talluzer 'brotheruna 'lot 'smarter.

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