Phonology and Phonetics Review

Table of Contents

1. Home
2. Aim and objectives
3. Getting started
4. Introduction
5. Vocal tract
6. Consonants
7. Vowels
8. Phonemic symbols
9. Test yourself
10. Stress
    1. Word and sentence stress
11. Aspects of connected speech
12. Intonation
13. Speech transcription
14. Speech analysis
15. Glossary
16. Resources
17. Feedback

Stress

Word Stress

Stress placement in English is mobile. ie the syllable or syllables that are stressed can vary depending on , for instance, the structure and function of a word. For English stress placement rules exist, but they are rather complex, this means that although first language speakers can usually predict accurately where to put the stress on an unknown word it can be very difficult for second language learners..

Stress placement depends on:

1. whether a word is morphologically simple or complex or a compound

2. the grammatical category of a word

3. the number of syllables in a word

4. the phonological stucture of the syllables

See what you know about word stress patterns

1

Which of the following words is the odd one out - and why? a) biology b) photographic c) photography d) geography photographic is the odd one out because the stress is on the second last syllable unlike in words ending in 'phy' or 'gy' where the stress goes on the third last syllableNo, sorryYour answer has been saved.

2	Which of the following words is the odd one out and why? a) station b) relation c) information d) relate relate is the odd one out because the stress is on the last syllable unlike all the other words ending in '..tion' where the stress goes on the second last syllableYour answer has been saved.

3	Which of the following words is the odd one out and why? a) static b) economy c) economic d) pneumatic economy is the odd one out because the stress goes on the third last syllable unlike all the words words ending in 'ic' where the stress goes on the second last syllableYour answer has been saved.