Sentence examples for English stress from inspiring English sources

In English, stress has a grammatical function, distinguishing between nouns and verbs, such as an insult versus to insult.

But close inspection of this manual for the mental conditioning of gentlemen reveals a strong English stress on character building and practical learning.

Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the voice (see also tone), but in such languages as English, stress and rhythm are also involved.

Most two-syllable words in English stress the first syllable.

Those who identified as Cornish and English stressed the primacy of their Cornishness and a capacity to distance themselves from their Englishness.

When lexical stress of the nonwords was varied to a non-English stress pattern, all participants repeated the stimuli with less accuracy, and the CWS again exhibited more errors than NS.

That's because Ancient Greek was a pitch-accented language, a bit like Chinese is today: an accent indicated the relative pitch at which you pronounced a given syllable and not, as in English, the stress (emphasis or loudness) that you put on that syllable.

The findings of this study have an original and significant contribution to the literature because it investigated into the prosodic transfer of intonation patterns between two typologically distinct languages: English, a stress accent language and Vietnamese, a contrastive contour tone language and has implications for intonation teaching.

Nguyễn and Ingram (2005) examined the transfer of tonal acoustic correlates in Vietnamese learners' production of English word stress.

In modern Turkish, the name is written as İstanbul, with a dotted İ, as the Turkish alphabet distinguishes between a dotted and dotless I. Also, while in English the stress is on the first syllable (Is), in Turkish it is on the second syllable (tan).

However, during the face validity tests, recommendations were made to change one of the words in the SJWS-M, Item 11 (i.e., the word "tegang" to the word "stres", which is a Malay adaptation for the English word "stress").