The Five Signistics Of Stress In English

Stress

Stress is defined as using more muscular energy while articulating the words. When a word or a syllable in word is produced louder, lengthier, with higher pitch or with more quality, it will be perceived as stressed. The prominence makes some syllables be perceived as stressed. Words including long vowels and diphthongs or ending with more than 1 consonant are stronger, heavier and stressed.
What word stress is?
A stressed syllable combines five features:
• It is l-o-n-g-e-r - com p-u-ter
• It is LOUDER - computer
• It has a change in pitch from the syllables coming before and afterwards. The pitch of a stressed syllable is usually higher.
• It is said more clearly -The vowel sound is purer. Compare the first and last vowel sounds

Look at your jaw and lips in particular.
It is equally important to remember that the unstressed syllables of a word have the opposite features of a stressed syllable. What are the ways in determining the main stress in English?

The steps to be taken in this process are, first:
1) Remove inflectional suffixes and stress neutral suffixes,

2) If the word has two syllables, stress the first one. The flowing words are examples for this two step process: “donkey, exit, finger, and bonus.”

3) If the words are of three syllables or more, determine whether the penult (the next to last syllable in a word) is heavy or light. Following are examples of heavy and light syllables.
“Recruitment, entailment, detergent, escapist (heavy)
“Average, bungalow, regiment, resolute (light)” 4) If the penult is heavy, stress it.
5) If the penult is light, stress the antepenult.
As seen in “Activate, Multiply, revitalize, Vaccinate.”

The affixes which change the word stress are various, some examples are
-ain (entertain)
-ee (refugee) Refuge Refugee -ese( Japanese) Japan