Rhythm
Rhythm in speech is the recurrence of stressed syllables in a sense-group at certain intervals of
time. In connected English speech stressed syllables have a strong tendency to follow each other
as nearly as possible at equal intervals of time and the unstressed syllables (whether many or
few) occupy the time and the between the stressed syllables. The greater the number of
unstressed syllables, the quicker they are pronounced, e.g.
'Andrew 'went 'back to London.
'Andrew has 'gone 'back to London.
'Andrew should have 'gone back to London.
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Insistent general questions are those which are repeat by the speaker either because he didn’t get an answer to his first question or because he
wants the listener to keep to the point.
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