Selfstudy National University of Uzbekistan Faculty of foreign Philology phonetics theme: Stress in compound words/Stress in longer words
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Classification of English Consonants. LECTURE 3
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- Stress,why do we need it
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Selfstudy National University of Uzbekistan Faculty of foreign Philology PHONETICS word stress(general information) Stress in compound words/Stress in longer words1-course,1-semesterprepared by:Yambaeva Dinaragroup№100Plan of presentation
Stress,why do we need it?WORD STRESS is your magic key to understanding spoken English.Native speakers of English use word stress naturally. Word stress is so natural for them that they don't even know they use it.Non-native speakers who speak English to native speakers without using word stress, encounter two problems:They find it difficult to understand native speakers, especially those speaking fast and the native speakers may find it difficult to understand them.Word stressWord stress Stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables. The word accent is sometimes also used with this sense.Word stress can be defined as the singling out of one or more syllables in a word, which is accompanied by the change of the force of utterance, pitch of the voice, qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the sound which is usually a vowel.Types of word stressWe distinguish the following types of Word stress:
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