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    As Persian is a stress-accent language‚ a certain syllable in a word is more prominent than other syllables. Considering the AM framework‚ there are three important prosodic studies of Persian. Eslami (2005) believe that in Persian there are four pitch accents (L*‚ H*‚ L*+H‚ L+H*)‚ two phrase accents (L-‚ H-) and also two boundary tones (L%‚ H%). He states that each of the above has a specific meaning and there

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    Word Stress in English

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    LECTURE 4 Word stress in English 1. Nature of word stress 2. Place of word stress in English. Degrees of stress 3. Functions of the English stress 4. Tendencies of the English stress 5. Typology of accentual structures 1. The sequence of syllables in the word is not pronounced identically. The syllable or syllables which are uttered with more prominence than the other syllables of the word are said to be stressed or accented. Stress in the isolated word

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    To make a line break in a cell (not everything fits well within a cell) -type first part then press alt+enter and then type the rest‚ it’ll put the rest on second line when you hit enter In a cell the number ’1’ is equivelent to 100% Excel stores dates as serial numbers starting at 1 (which is January 1‚ 1900) so 9/15/2012 is 41167 (the number of days from 1/1/1900 to 9/15/2012) To adjust colum width (the horizontal measurement of a column) -Click "Format" in cells group (on Home

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    Love over words Julia Alvarez knocked socks off of hundreds of american and Dominican Republic lives by her novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents‚ which was published in 1991 but the book starts in 1960 in New York‚ The novel is “told in reverse chronological order and narrated from shifting perspectives(“Alvarez‚Julia.”ProQuest). The Garcia girls are first introduced in the novel when they have established lives at age 30 and goes through their experience of having to go from a small

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    of stress that actually helps us understand. This other kind of stress is an accent that we make on certain syllables and words when speaking English. When words combine to form sentences not all of them are stressed. Sentence stress is the music of spoken English. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat". You remember that word stress is accent on one syllable within a word. Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence. For example‚ in the sentence‚ She ‘went to

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    who judge unfairly. His props showed a lawless state which by his own actions made. Himself was a bad action drinking‚ taking bribes‚ ET? These three actors gave an intent impression of watching the play‚ the use of pitch‚ pace‚ tone‚ pauses and accents gave the play a fantastic display. The costumes were all white which made the important parts side out. This gave the directors idea out to the audience. Brecht’s emotions of imaginative‚ vitality was shown here‚ and‚ the corrupt‚ drunk‚ 
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    exporter and the second largest car manufacturer of India. HMIL presently markets 54 variants of passenger cars across segments. These includes the Santro in the B segment‚ the i10‚ the Getz Prime & the premium hatchback i20 in the B+ segment‚ the Accent and the Verna in the C segment‚ the Sonata Transform in the E segment and the Tucson in the SUV segment. Hyundai Motor India Ltd‚ continuing its tradition of being the fastest growing passenger car manufacturer‚ registered total sales of 559‚880

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    one primary stress in it.One word cannot have two stress. b: We stress according to the quality of Vowels not Consonants.(Examples given above) 2: SENTENCE STRESS: In sentences‚we place the stress on words.Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence.There are two classes of words. a: Contents Words b: Structure Words CONTENTS WORDS: Words carrying the meanings.They are stressed. Main verbs | Sell‚go‚come

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    the free encyclopedia Global rise Global fall | ↗◌ | ↘◌ | IPA number | 510‚ 511 | Encoding | Entity(decimal) | ↗​↘ | Unicode(hex) | U+2197 U+2198 | Not to be confused with inflection‚ tone (linguistics)‚ or pitch accent. In linguistics‚ intonation is variation of pitch while speaking which is not used to distinguish words. It contrasts with tone‚ in which pitch variation does distinguish words. Intonation‚ rhythm‚ and stress are the three main elements of linguistic prosody

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    Lecture Intonation in English Outline     1. Intonation: definition‚ approaches‚ functions. 2. Components of intonation and the structure of English tone-group. 3. Sentence stress. 4. Rhythm. 1. Intonation: definition‚ approaches‚ functions. Intonation is a language universal. There are no languages which are spoken without any change of prosodic parameters but intonation functions in various languages in a different way. What is the role intonation plays in the language? Intonation

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