Stress Phonetically stress is defined as a force with which a syllable structured.

A stress sylaable is produced with mpre energy than its neighbours and usually louder sometimes in a higher pitch or maybe even long. Thus stress is phonologically correlate of combinations of loudness(psychology) ( physical intensity (dB)), pitch ( frequent Hz) and length( duration (sec)) Examples: Many student go to murberg This utterance consists of tow tone units whose terminal juncture isafter student Within each tone unit we find at least one syllable the so called neclus which is more promenant than others it carries more stress. Now in this case it will be stu mar In preset day English the placement of stress can influence our understanding of English words in various ways. and it can be subdivided into several types Lexical stress concerns words where the placement of stress leads to lexical differences that is differences in terms of meaning or word class.y word In group of primirlary bisyllabic word the placement of stress helps to distinguish their word class Contrast object entrance present if the sress is fall on the first syllable its a nominal stress patterns Shift stress: this affects words whose stress patterns is dependant on their syntactic environments. They swithch their primary stress fron one syllable to another leaving the syllable that originally carriying the primary strss unstressed Chineese thirteen un-happy she felt un-happy blue-eyed he is blue eyed next-door They have two stress patterns One when they have used in predicative context or in isolation in thus cases their second syllable is stressed. Thiscan be contrasted with attributive context where the first syllable is stressed e.g. a chineese guy an un-happy feeling So if these adjectival items use attributively yiu stress the first syllable and if the used predicatively you stress the second syllable Weakening which concerns words whose segmental structure depends on whether they are stressed or unstressed

One of the most charcterctic features of English phonology is the weakening of the vowels or the centralizations of vowels towardsthe voelschwa in unstressed syllables this affect about four dozens of monosyllabic functions words which occure very frequently on conversation. These words has strong forms in stressed positions with fully stressed vowels or weak form if the ocurr in unstressed positions with a weaken vowel or even a syllabic consonant The super segmental differences between britisg and American English In fact there are only few supersegmental difrences.the concern fo example theposition of stress in loan words of French origion. Ballet dictate dictionary Garage rotate secondary American English tends to preserve the original stress.in british English words of this type initial stress is preferd. The placement of stress in polysyllabic words.letslook to coloumn two next. Later stress than American English.in next set of words with four syllables. In british English we have one stress.in American we have addition a secondary stress Stress timed vs syllable timed English is stressed time.not a syllablewithin a word are equal in length but the tone gropu that is string that contain on stressed syllable reffred to as neculus.the syllablethemself may last difreent amounts of time \ stress times language can be contarast with syllable time languages whre every syallable is perceived as takening up roughly the same amount of time.an example is Italian