Learn how to pronounce the words AGGREGATE & AGGREGATE with this American English heteronym pronunciation lesson. Heteronyms are words that are spelled exactly the same. They just have a different pronunciation and a different meaning.
Pronunciation:
/ˈæɡrɪɡɪt & ˈæɡrɪɡeɪt/
Definition:
a whole formed by combining elements
to collect related items for display, to form a group or cluster
Transcript:
Hello everyone it’s Jennifer from Tarle speech with your heteronym lesson. Heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but they are pronounced differently and have different meanings.
Our words today are aggregate which is a whole formed by combining elements and also material formed with Loosely compacted fragments and that is the noun. And the adjective form the verb form aggregate means to collect related items for display or to form a group or a cluster.
So we have several words that have this pattern and I’m going to be posting these over the next several weeks. This is a three syllable word so we have a little bit of a different pattern in English. We can have stress that is the main stress and then we can have secondary stress. So that means it sounds sometimes like we have two stressed syllables in a word and we have that case in this situation. So let’s start with how we pronounce each syllable. We are going to start with ag, and to do that, open your mouth wide for that ah, tongue tip down back pulled up, and then move to that g. Your tongue stays in about the same spot for that g AG.
Next we’re going to move to that ra that’s a schwa there, the unstressed uh sound. Start with that R ER. Tip of the tongue down or flipped back, back of the tongue pulled high up. Lips are square and tense and then you’re going to relax everything for that uh Ra.
Then for the ending we’re going to start with that g. Tip of the tongue down, back of the tongue pulled up. Air Puffs out. We’re going to end with that t. Tip of the tongue touches the spot where the skin meets the teeth and the air is just going to Puff out.
All right so let’s put some of that together. Agra Agra.
All right so for the ending we have a little vowel difference for word number one, the adjective, or the noun. We’re going to end again with that schwa, that uh sound.Just super short and relaxed. The schwa is tricky you can also say the unstressed E like get, or the unstressed E like get both will work. The key is it just needs to be shorter, softer, and lower in pitch. In this word in the noun or the adjective we are going to stress syllable one.
So let’s put it all together
aggregate aggregate aggregate
aggregate Aggregate
And now for the verb. We are going to use that long a at the end. a a
And to do that your mouth is open wide and then moves to kind of a smile and your tongue moves from having the tip from low to higher in the mouth behind the top front teeth. But it’s not touching. Now we have two stress points here the AG and then the gate. Okay so let’s give it a try:
aggregate aggregate aggregate
aggregate aggregate
So we have aggregate aggregate aggregate
aggregate aggregate aggregate
aggregate aggregate Aggregate
And now for a sentence:
Schools often use aggregate test scores to aggregate students into classes.
Give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference.
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