week 8

Question 1

word stress

Answer 1

stressed syllables: prominence

pitch
length
loudness
quality

Question 2

pitch

Answer 2

Pitch is an auditory sensation that places sounds on a scale from high to low

Question 3

length

Answer 3

If one of the syllables is made longer than the others, there is quite a strong tendency for
the syllable to be stressed

Question 4

loudness

Answer 4

Stressed syllables are louder than unstressed syllables

Question 5

quality

Answer 5

A syllable will tend to be prominent if it contains a vowel that is different in quality from
neighbouring vowels

If we change one of the vowels in the nonsense word (LA-LA-LA-LA), the “odd”
syllable will be hard as stressed
- (LA-LI-LA-LA)

Question 6

levels of stress

Answer 6

primary - high mark
secondary - low mark

Question 7

penultimate stress

Answer 7

stress on syllable preceding a suffix

emotion /ɪˈməʊʃn/, curiosity /ˌkjʊəriˈɒsəti/, insipid /ɪnˈsɪpɪd/, modify
/ˈmɒdɪfaɪ/, original /əˈrɪdʒənl/, habitual /həˈbɪtʃuəl/, apology /əˈpɒlədʒi/, spectator
/spekˈteɪtə/, economic /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk/, orthography /ɔːˈθɒɡrəfi/, exclusive /ɪkˈskluːsɪv/,
opinion /əˈpɪnjən/, familiar /fəˈmɪliə/, technician /tekˈnɪʃn/, sufficient /səˈfɪʃnt/

Question 8

antepenultimate stress

Answer 8

third from last

biography
geometry
mythology
etc.

Question 9

compound words

Answer 9

sunflower
primary stress on the first element
‘sunflower

Question 10

rhythm of English

Answer 10

stress-timed