Белорусский государственный

Heavy
syllables attract stress, they become stressed, while 
light
syllables are 
unstressed
. 
The syllable division determines the syllabic structure of the language, its syllable typology. 
Phonotactic
possibilities of a language determine the rules of syllable division. 
The syllable performs three functions: 
constitutive
and 
distinctive
and 
identificatory
. 

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LECTURE 7 
WORD STRESS IN ENGLISH 
1.
Nature of word stress 
2.
Linguistically relevant degrees of word stress 
3.
Functions and tendencies of the English stress 
Word stress
is a greater degree of prominence of a syllable or syllables as compared to the 
other syllables of a word. 
The stressed syllables are pronounced with more muscular energy than the unstressed ones. 
On the acoustic level stressed syllables are characterized by increased intensity, duration and 
fundamental frequency, which correspond to increased loudness, length and pitch on the perception 
level. 
There are two types of word stress: 
dynamic
and 
musical (tonic)
. 
English word stress is a complex phenomenon formed by interdependent components: 
loudness, pitch, length and vowel quality. 
The syllables in a word have different degrees of prominence. In English they generally 
distinguish three linguistically relevant degrees of stress: 
primary
, 
secondary
and 
weak
. Some 
scholars also include 
tertiary
stress, but the first classification is more acceptable for teaching 
English as a foreign language. 
According to its placement stress can be