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This chapter explores the phonetic aspects of word stress and what potential, and limitations, they have in informing us about the mental unconscious knowledge English speakers have regarding stress. The hands-on activities further develop skills and rapport with Praat, for example by guiding readers how to manipulate the melody or duration of syllables in recorded speech. ‘Word stress’ concludes with reviewing the major patterns for stress placement in the semi-predictable system of English lexical stress.
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This preference applies when the words are pronounced in isolation. As we will see in Sect. 11.4, putting words into larger phrases might result in systematic changes in the main stress position.
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See for example Terken and Hermes (2000) for the notions of syntagmatic and paradigmatic prominence relevant to the notions of ‘relative’ prominence in this paragraph.
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Beňuš, Š. (2021). Word Stress. In: Investigating Spoken English. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54349-5_9
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