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English. Native speakers of English use word stress naturally. Word stress is so natural for native speakers of English that they don't even know they use it. Non-native speakers who speak English to native speakers without using word stress encounter two problems:
They find it difficult to understand native speakers,
especially those speaking fast. Native speakers may find it difficult to understand
same force or strength. In one word, we accentuate ONE syllable. We say one syllable very loudly (big, strong, important) and all the other syllables very quietly.
UNDERSTANDING SYLLABLES
To understand word stress, you need to
understand syllables. Every word is made from syllables. Words have one, two, three or more syllables. Notice that (with a few rare exceptions) every syllable contains at least one vowel (a, e, i, o or u) or vowel sound.
UNDERSTANDING SYLLABLES
WORD Dog Green Quite Quiet Table Orange Expensive Interesting Dog Green Quite Qui-et Ta-ble Or-ange Ex-pen-sive In-ter-est-ing SYLLABLES 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 4
Unexceptional
Un-ex-cep-tion-al
STRESS PLACEMENT
STRESS PLACEMENT