Word and
Sentence Stress
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Sentence stress is the pattern of stressed and unstressed words across a sentence. Normally this emphasis is on words that carry important information, although this can change significantly, depending on the specific meaning the speaker wants to communicate.
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Word and
Sentence Stress
WORD STRESS It is the emphasis we place in a specific syllable of a word when pronouncing it.
WHAT IS
WORD
STRESS?
In English words that have more than one syllable, we usually don’t pronounce every syllable with the same weight, so each syllable in a word can be stressed or unstressed. table expensive interesting
ta - ble
ex- pen - sive
in - te-res-ting / in - tres-ting
There are two very simple rules about word stress:
- One word has only one stress. WORD^ 2.^ We can only stress vowels, not consonants. STRESS RULE
WORD
STRESS
RULE
WORD
STRESS
RULE
ACTIVITY #1:
- teacher
- Japan
- China
- above
- conversation
- important
- demand
WHAT IS
WORD
STRESS?
1.teach er 2.Ja pan 3.Chin a 4.a bove 5.conver sa tion 6.im por tant 7.de mand
EXAMPLES
I asked you to buy me a bunch of red roses. I asked you to buy me a bunch of red roses. I asked you to buy me a bunch of red roses. I asked you to buy me a bunch of red roses. I asked you to buy me a bunch of red roses.
The basic rules of sentence stress
are:
1. content words are stressed
2. structure words are unstressed
Sentence
Stress
Rules
Structure
Words
- Grammatical or structure words are not stressed (words that help structure a sentence in English but that do not really have some meaning if you put them out of context: a, an, the, is, etc.)
Exceptions
REMEMBER: Even though all content words receive some sort of stress, one content word within the sentence will receive greater stress than all others.
SUPER
STRESS
- To help your listeners focus on what you’re saying, use Super Stress : extra emphasis that is even higher, louder, clearer, and l o n g e r than regular stress.