Stress AND reduction (1/4): both are essential for English pronunciation

Piers Messum at IATEFL 2014 Stress and reduction in English are like two sides of a coin, working together to make selected syllables in speech prominent. Since pronunciation is a motor skill, we should teach the articulations that create stress and also those that underlie vowel reduction. These muscular actions are not well known. I will describe them and then demonstrate how to teach them.