British approach

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American approach

primary stress

secondary

tertiary

weak

Primary

Secondary

Weak

Stress: musical, dynamic

In eng stress in free, in some other languages - fixed

Stress is considered from the point of view of its 1) position 2) degree of force

In 2 syll ws primary stress falls on the first syllable

In 3 syll ws – on the 2^nd syll

In 4 and more – on 3d from the end

Secondary stress depends on the number of syllables and the place of the primary stress.

Others – unstressed (have weak stress).

Types of sentence stress. 1.Normal (is used to arrange the sentence phonetically, to single a nuclear of the centre of the utterance – I want a blue dress) 2.Logical (when the symantic centre is shifted from the last notional word to soma other word than it's a logical stress – the weather is nice today)3. Emphatic (stress may differ according to the degree of prominence with which the symantic sentence is pronounced, emph stress is associated with fall rise and mid and figh fall – the weather is nice today).

. Sentence-Stress and its Phonological Status

Functions:

1. Constitutive. SS organizes intonation patterns semantically and syntactically. It also helps to single out the communicative center and other important items of the utterance. Nominal words are usually accented, and form words are usually unstressed. Although form words may be accented or stressed in certain structural types of sentences, in certain positions in a sentence they may be emphasized logically.

It "is important.

It is im"portant.

We distinguish three types of SS:

Normal

Normal Accent (Normal SS) arranges the utterance phonetically, renders the meaning and indicates the nucleus of the communicative center which in this case is associated with the last notional word.

Logical

Logical Stress presupposes the shifting of the nucleus from the last notional word in a sense group to another word which we emphasize logically.

Emphatic

Both Normal & Logical SS's may be unemphatic & emphatic. Emphatic accent implies the increase of the effort of expression.

2. The distinctive function of SS. Intonation patterns differ primarily in respect to the position of the nucleus of the communicative center. The opposition of the intonation patterns is capable of fulfilling:

→ the syntactically distinctive function - the number of communicative centers indicates the number of intonation groups. In this case the opposition of intonation (accentuation) patterns fulfills this function.

(Do you know his schoolmate, | Harry?)

→ the semantically distinctive function – is realized in the opposition of different accentuation patterns:

You forget your"self (You neglect yourself).

You for"get yourself (Ты забываешься).

→ the attitudinally distinctive function – may be demonstrated by changing the accentuation pattern of the sentence.

What shall I do?

(If ‘shall' is unaccented, it is an auxiliary verb – Что же делать? ; if it is the nucleus of the communicative center, it functions as a modal verb and here the meaning is changed (insistent).

→ together with pitch accent (SS) also fulfills the function of dividing a sentence into theme and rheme.