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Essay for stress Phonetics BA students

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                     Essay for Stress in English Stress means emphasis . It means some extra force or prominence given to a part of a word while speaking. 1. We pronounce certain words in one breath .   E.g. pen, one, sing, school, bread etc 2 .Some other words we pronounce in two parts or units . Eg.    Present -    pre’sent        Demand -    de’ mand        Conduct –    con’ duct 3 . Some words are pronounced in three or more parts or units . Psychology               -                  Psy’cho’lo’gy Confession               -                  Con’fes’sion Consult                     -                   Con’sult Consultation           -                   Con’sul’ta’tion Contemporaneous -                  Con’tem’por’an’eous Humanitarian          -                   Hu’man’it’ar’ian The part or unit of a word is known as syllable .   The stress may fall on the first syllable or second syllable or third syllable as the case may be. The syllable that rece