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Listen to the minimal pair sentences again. Notice that the speaker can choose to make any word the most important one for the meaning of a sentence, and to make that word more strongly stressed than the other words. When you are reading English books or newspapers a word that is much more strongly stressed than the others in a sentence is printed in italics or in bold italics.
Notice this in the sound 1 sentence in Pair 3: Put your head and heart into it.
The speaker does this to suggest the meaning: ‘not just your head but also your heart', so the pronunciation of and changes. Here it is pronounced /ænd/ when it is strongly stressed. It is usually weakly stressed, and pronounced /ənd/.
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