4. IS THE DEGREE OF LOUDNESS GIVEN
TO SOME SYLLABLESIN RELATION
TO OTHER
5. CHARACTERISTICS OF
• LOUDER IN VOLUME
• LONGER IN DURATION
• HIGHER IN PITCH
WHEN A SYLLABLE IS STRESSED, IT IS
6. LEVEL OF STRE
Unstressed : having no
recognizable
amount of prominence.
Primary Stress (‘) : stress which
the most
prominence
Secondary stress (,) : stronger than
unstressed but weaker
than the
18. SUFFIXES
Is a group of letters placed at the end
of a word to make a newword.
A suffix can make a new word in one of two ways:
• Inflectional (grammatical)
• Derivational (the new word has a new meaning,
"derived" from the original word)
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22. AFFECT STRESS
A word is normally stressed on the first syllable,
unless there is a reason to put the stress somewhere else.
Stressing the wrong syllable in a word can make the word
very difficult to hear and understand
Mistakes in word stress are a common cause of misunderstanding
in English
Some derivational suffixes do not affect the stress while others do
23. EXAMPLE
WORDS SUFFIX AFTER ADDING
SUFFIX
‘comfort ‘-able’ ‘comfortable’
‘wonder ‘-ful’ ‘wonderful’
‘amaze ‘-ing’ ‘amazing’
‘person ‘-age’ ‘personage’
‘refuse ‘-al’ ‘refusal’
derivational suffixes do not affect the stress