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Word and Sentence stress, Students: - Coggle Diagram
Word and Sentence stress
What is word stress?
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Stress can fall on the first, middle or the last syllables of words.
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Levels of stress
Daniel Jones, in An Outline of English Phonetics cites the word opportunity which has five levels of stress.
'1' indicates the greatest level of stress, and '5' the least.
Many commentators settle on a three-level distinction between primary stress, secondary stress and unstress, as seen in the following examples:
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However, in practical terms a two-level division (stressed or unstressed) is usually adequate for teaching purposes.
Two levels of stress are enough to attune learners' ears and attention to how stress acts within words and utterances.
Rules of word stress
Descriptions of tendencies that tell us what is true most of the time, and it is always possible to find exceptions.
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