Tham khảo tài liệu 'spoken english elementary handbook part 13', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | What is Word Stress Contents What is Word Stress Analysis of Discussion Words in Elementary Book 2 Discussion Words with Suffixes in Elementary Book 2 Working Out Word Stress - Analysis of a Newspaper Article 1 Working Out Word Stress - Two-Syllable Words where the First Syllable is a Schwa a Talk a Lot Focus on Connected Speech What is Word Stress Every word in English has one syllable with a stronger stress than that of the others. English is a stress-timed language which means that we speak with rhythm pronouncing the stress in each content word. For example in the word teacher the first syllable is stressed and the second syllable is unstressed. See for more on content words. The strong stress always falls on a vowel sound. But which syllable and sound is stressed in each word There are many complicated and obscure rules for finding word stress in English words like Two-syllable adjectives without prefixes are always stressed on the first syllable or sometimes the second if the word begins with a vowel unless there is an R in the month or it s later than 8pm in the evening on a market day during a wet fortnight in Wales . etc. OK I m only joking but perhaps you can see what I m trying to say here Students can of course explore word stress in more detail at their leisure the bibliography on could help . However in this handbook I would like to highlight a few dead-cert rules 1. First Syllable Drift In English most words tend to be stressed on the first syllable. Around 83 of the 1 000 most commonly-used words have Germanic origin which is where this tendency comes from1. For example of the 201 single discussion words with two or more syllables in Talk a Lot Elementary Book 2 154 were stressed on the first syllable - that s 77 . For more analysis of discussion words from this book see . 2. Suffixes Suffixes are the end parts of words like -able believable -ful helpful -ing eating -ment arrangement etc. Suffixes are almost
