Types of the word stress

Main properties of the word stress

Key Problems of the Lecture

Basic Notions

Lecture 5. Word Accent

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY 5

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY 5

planters	плантатор
yeoman	мелкий землевладелец
poor whites	белые бедняки (обычно малограмотные, находящиеся на самом низу соц. лестницы)
abolitionist movement	аболиционизм, движение за отмену рабства
Underground Railroad	подпольная железная дорога
fugitive	беглый
Missouri Compromise	Миссурийский компромисс
popular sovereignty	суверенитет народа
a free-soil state	штат свободных земель
A house divided against itself cannot stand	первые слова инаугурационной речи президента Линкольна
Confederate States of America	Конфедерация южных штатов

planters	плантатор
yeoman	мелкий землевладелец
poor whites	белые бедняки (обычно малограмотные, находящиеся на самом низу соц. лестницы)
abolitionist movement	аболиционизм, движение за отмену рабства
Underground Railroad	подпольная железная дорога
fugitive	беглый
Missouri Compromise	Миссурийский компромисс
popular sovereignty	суверенитет народа
a free-soil state	штат свободных земель
A house divided against itself cannot stand	первые слова инаугурационной речи президента Линкольна
Confederate States of America	Конфедерация южных штатов

1. Word accent as a component of phonetic structure of a word and its functions.

2. Types of word accents. Linguistically relevant degrees of word stress.

3. Word accentuation theories and basic stress patterns. The main rules of word stress.

4. Utterance stress. Distribution of stress in an utterance. Functions of stress in discourse.

Word Accent – the greatest degree of special prominence given to one or more syllables as compared with that of the other syllable or syllables in one and the same word.

The accentual structure of words – is constituted by the occurrence of syllables with different degrees of special prominence in different positions in relation to the beginning, middle and end of words.

The tonic stress – the syllable receiving potential primary (nuclea) accent.

The pretonic stress – a secondary accent which is frequently manifested by actual or potential pitch prominence.

The posttonic stress – a secondary accent which may be manifested, when adjecent to tonic, merely by qualitative or quantitative prominence.

intensity duration frequency formant structure

1. dynamic 2. musical 3. Swedish 4. quantitative 5. qualitative

Degrees of the word stress in English

1. Primary (strong) 2. Secondary (partial) 3. Weak (D.Jones, R.Kingdon, V.Vassilyev)

1. Primary 2. Secondary 3. Tertiary 4. Weak (H.A.Gleason, G.Trager, A.Hill)

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