Phonetics II - Unit 2 - General Revision

Stress is a feature of ...

• WORDS

• SENTENCES

Every word has a ... stress, which is the one found and marked (') in dictionaries.

In connected speech, lexical stresses always become accents.

• TRUE

• FALSE

... words are generally accented.

Function words are generally unaccented and they include:

• CONJUCTIONS

• ADVERBS

• PREPOSITIONS

• PRONOUNS

• ARTICLES

The distinction between accented and unaccented words has to with rhythm. For this reason, we describe English as a ... language.

Within each intonation phrase, one word is selected as the most important and it is made the ... of that IP

The nuclear accent is the last accent in an IP; i.e: we cannot accent words following the nucleus

• TRUE

• FALSE

In general terms and as a rule, we place the nuclear accent on the ... item in the IP

Find the nucleus:

Here's some information about them

Answer explanation

It should be pointed out that the nuclear accent is on the the third syllable of the word.