Topic-0 84: Stress Explanation Stress is a large topic and despite the fact that it has been extensively studied fora very longtime, there remain many areas of disagreement or lack of understanding. So, it is important to consider what factors make a syllable count as stressed. Stress is basically a prominence of syllable in terms of loudness, length, pitch and quality and all of them work together in order to make a syllable stressed. As discussed above, two types of stress are important. Firstly, stress on a syllable within a word (the lexical stress) which changes the grammatical category of a word (compare insult within bsultb) and also change meaning among other things. On the other hand, stress on a word or certain words in a phrase or sentence. This type of stress (on words) within sentences) is called sentence level or prosodic stress. This is, in fact, a change or modification to word level stress in a sentence which is basically a change of beat on certain words in a sentence. Remember that, we create rhythm in spoken language on the basis of stress. Analyze the following examples (stressed words are shown in bold
