Theme: Word stress

Theme:Word stress

Done by Axmadova Jumagul

Group:34-17

What is word stress?

• If a word has more than one syllable you give stress to one of the syllables. To give it stress you should:
• make it longer
• make it louder
• make it higher
• This is called word stress, which means pronouncing one syllable with greater emphasis than the other syllables in the word.

Why word stress is important?

• Mistakes in word stress is a common cause of misunderstanding in English. Here are the reasons why:
• Stressing the wrong syllable can make the word very difficult to hear and understand.
• Stressing a word differently can change the meaning or the type of the word. For instance:
• o O O o
• desert desert

dagrees of word stress

• There are 3 dagrees of word stress in a word:
• Primary stress
• secondary stress
• weak (unstressed) syllable

• There are two very simple rules about word stress:
• 1. One word has only one stress(if you hear two stresses you hear two words. It is true that there can be a “secondary” stress in some words, and it is only used in long words)
• 2. We can only stress vowel sounds, not consonants.

Word stress rules

• In most two-syllable nouns the stress is put on the first syllable of the word: CLImate, KNOWledge etc.
• Stress the syllable just before the additions of –tion, -sion, -cious, -tious, -cial, -tial; example: atTENtion, SPAcious, exTENsion…
• In word ending in –ic, -ical, -icolly the stress is on the syllable before them:geoGRAPHic but note:Arabic, Lunatic, POlitic
• Words ending in –ology, -onomy, -ologist are stressed on third-from-last syllable: Geology
• Words ending in –ese are stressed on this syllable:chinESE

Words that have two primary stresses

• Polisyllables with negativ prefixes:IMMOral, DISapPEar, IMPOSsible
• Compound numerals:TWENty thREE
• Compound verbs
• But double stressed nouns are rare: gasstore
• Compound adjectives with only one stress on the first element occur when the second element is semantically weak. For example: spring-like.

Thank you for your attention!!!