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You rent a house?
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Two stress words, it's a yes no question.Ā
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You rent a --
My first one goes up and down.Ā
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House --
My second one goes down and up, that'sĀ Ā
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the typical intonation for a yes, no question.
Now you're probably noticing 'rent a,Ā Ā
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rent a' that I'm dropping that T,
pretty common to drop the T in the NT cluster,Ā Ā
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especially when followed by a vowel --
Rent a, rent a, rent a house.Ā
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You rent a house?
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We rent a house.Ā
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And then she's nodding, she's agreeing --
We rent a house.Ā
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'We rent a', those are all going up,
'house' that has our up down shape of stress.Ā
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We rent a house.
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We rent with some friends.
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