• In order to decide on stress placement, it is necessary to make use of some or all of the information above. • Examples 1) Single-syllable word If they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress.
Quality(音质)
• A syllable will tend to be prominent if it contains a vowel that is different in quality from neighboring vowels.
Levels of stress
• two-level analysis of stress- “stressed” and “unstressed” syllables. • three-level analysis of stress- primary stress, secondary stress and unstressed. ( within the word) primary stress- the prominence that results from this pitch movement, or tone, gives the strongest type of stress around ə'raʊnd
ɪŋ`kaʊntə
‘determine’
*If the final syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong, or ends with more than one consonant, that final syllable will be stressed.