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Aspects of English Sentence Stress
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Some Problematic Issues in the Study of Intonation and Sentence Stress
The two issues examined are: the assumption that there exists an intonation pattern that can be characterized as "normal" or "neutral"; and the issue of whether intonation can have any effect on the form taken by the syntactic structure of the utterance to which it is assigned.
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A Study of the Use of English Sentence Stress for the Comprehension of Meaning by Adult Second Language Learners (Psycholinguistics, Arabic, Spanish, Acquisition)
… communication. One of these features, linguistic stress, is believed to mark the most important information in a sentence, whether it is new information, a crucial contrast, or a discourse control signal to the listener. At this time, however, little is known about the use of spoken English …
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Phonological Awareness and Foreign Accent: A Handbook for German EFL Teachers
… aspects of American English pronunciation: word stress and sentence stress.</p>
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Focus and discourse stress
English utterances contain a peak stress prominence that is known variously as primary phrasal stress, nuclear stress, sentence stress, or more precisely, discourse stress, which is typically understood to mark new information or contrasts in sentences. Learners may have difficulties communicating …