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Text Two, Lexical Units

The document discusses identifying lexical units that are categorized as function words versus content words in two example sentences. It explains that in the first sentence "Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes", the words "hard", "single", and "shoes" are stressed more prominently and correspond to two adjectives and one noun as content words. However, not every content word like "sometimes" and "walk" received the same stress. The document similarly analyzes the second example sentence "Bob and I finally received our wedding give from Michael".

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Text Two, Lexical Units

The document discusses identifying lexical units that are categorized as function words versus content words in two example sentences. It explains that in the first sentence "Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes", the words "hard", "single", and "shoes" are stressed more prominently and correspond to two adjectives and one noun as content words. However, not every content word like "sometimes" and "walk" received the same stress. The document similarly analyzes the second example sentence "Bob and I finally received our wedding give from Michael".

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Text Two:
Identify the lexical units that can be categorized as Function Words in the following text.
Now lets look at the following example,
(e) Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes.
Which words did you hear as being stressed, higher in pitch?
If you can read this sentence in normal circumstances and aloud you might be able to identify that
there are three lexical units which are uttered more prominently than other syllables. Such words
can be: hard, single, and shoes.
From a content word perspective, and considering the parts of speech, we can say that they
correspond to two adjectives and one noun. Now, those were not the only content words in the
sentence. 'Sometimes' is an adverb, that's a content word.
But 'hard' was stressed at a higher level. Walk is a verb, again a content word, but it wasn't
brought out as high as the other ones. The word 'to' was reduced so it corresponded to a weak
realization of such word.
In the part where In a is located, such words were also reduced. Then, during the realization of
single woman's shoes, the word woman, again, is a noun, but it wasn't stressed as much as
'single' or 'shoes'.
So you can see, or rather hear, in this sentence, all of the stressed words were content words,
but not every one of the content words was stressed.
Do the same analysis with the following example:
(f) Bob and I finally received our wedding give from Michael

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