语言学第二章语音学.ppt

* Primary vs. Secondary Stress epiphenomenal unsatisfactory discrimination standardization communication industrialization Sentence stress Sentence stress----the relative force given to the components of a sentence. Generally, nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, numerals and demonstrative pronouns are stressed. Other categories like articles, person pronouns, auxiliary verbs prepositions and conjunctions are usually not stressed. Note: a monosyllabic word may have said to be stressed relative to other words in the sentence; for pragmatic reason, this rule is not always right, e.g. we ma