Sentence examples for tone stress from inspiring English sources

The dialects of Serbo-Croatian and Slovene also exhibit almost every type of prosodic structure (e.g., tone, stress, length) found in European languages.

Among the symbols of the IPA, 107 letters represent consonants and vowels, 31 diacritics are used to modify these, and 19 additional signs indicate suprasegmental qualities such as length, tone, stress, and intonation.

Campaign aides and others had stressed that Mr. Bush wanted to set a conciliatory, even optimistic, tone, stressing his record of bipartisanship in Texas.

As David Cameron faced resistance in Westminster over an intervention, the French president deliberately struck a measured tone, stressing the overall importance of a political solution.

But the Brexit secretary and the chancellor, who have forged a close working relationship in recent weeks, appear to have consciously decided to strike a more emollient tone, stressing the government's willingness to make concessions where necessary – a stance backed up by No 10.

Pergolide exposure led to increased tissue stiffness, but it decreased both basal and active contractile tone stresses generated by AVIC tissues.

Yet it possesses such a complex array of tones, stresses, and syllable lengths that its speakers can dispense with their vowels and consonants altogether and sing, hum, or whistle conversations.

Contrast that with the advertisements that the firm used last year to launch Vanilla Coke which were only screened in the evenings and had a dark tone to stress that Vanilla Coke is an evening drink for sophisticated adults.

Marks and Tone both stress that the contraceptive pill has not proved to be a panacea, nor has it fulfilled one of the goals behind its development, the limitation of population growth in the third world.

We outline key challenges stemming from the complexity and subtlety of language use, the prevalence of creative and non-standard language, and the lack of paralinguistic information, such as tone and stress markers.

The answer, strangely enough, is that language permits the communication of the passions in a way that gesture does not, and that the tone and stress of linguistic communication are crucial, rather than its content.