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Mastering stress, rhythm, and intonation in English can be intimidating for many learners. One common fear is the complexity of the English stress system. English is a stress-timed language, which means that stressed syllables occur at approximately regular intervals, regardless of the number of unstressed syllables in between.
In linguistics stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to ce rtain. syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. En glish is what is. known as a stressed language ...
Stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. In English, stressed syllables are louder than non-stressed syllables. Also, they are longer and have a higher pitch. English is a stress-timed language. That means that stressed syllables appear at a roughly steady ...
May 8, 2012 · ESL: English is a Stress-Timed language. That means you need contrast between stressed and unstressed syllables -- unstressed words may reduce, and will be...
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English, Russian and Arabic . . . are stresstimed languages'. Most teachers of phonetics are used to being asked by students how one can tell if a particular language is syllable-timed or stress-timed; it is easy enough to construct and perform examples, such as a comparison between an English sentence:
Nov 4, 2012 · One of the most important features of English that second language speakers need to be aware of is that English is a stress timed language. It sounds very technical, but it isn’t. It just means that we stress the important words and all the other words get squeezed in between those important ones. So that these sentences: Dogs chase cats.
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. That emphasis is typically caused by such properties as increased loudness and vowel length, full articulation of the vowel, and changes in tone.
