THE NATURE OF ENGLISH WORD STRESS.

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ENGLISH WORD STRESS.

FUNCTIONS OF THE SYLLABLE.

1)the constitutive function manifests it secure that the syllable makes up words and utterances.

2) the distinctive function of the syllable manifests itself that the syllables differentiate words and word combination.

3)dug to indificatory function of the syllable we can recognize word and word groups.

The phonetic structure of the word comprises not only sounds and syllabic structure it also has particular stress patterns. There are may be one or more stressed syllables in a word.

Ex. ‘history

‘maga'zine

A stressed syllable on the auditory level has special prominence, the effect of prominence may be produced by a number of factors:

1)greater loudness- compered to that of the neighboring syllables.

2)greater length- we pronounced longer some words.

3)modifications in pitch – pronounce hire.

4)stressed syllables are pronounced clearly and distinctly.

In different languages, stress is achieved by various combinations of these factors.

Ex. In languages with dynamic stress, the factor of loudness prevails. In languages with musical stress the main factor is changing the pitch level , there is also quantitative word stress, where the main factor is the length of the syllable.+English word stress is of a complete nature, the main factors being duration and lowers, pitch movement is also important and stressed syllables are pronounced clearly and distinctive.