The document discusses the use of stress and intonation in English language newspaper headings to convey important information and meaning. It provides details on word stress, sentence stress, tone, pitch, kinds of tones used in English including falling, rising, and falling-rise tones. It explains the accentual and non-accentual intonation functions and gives examples of how stress and intonation are used to distinguish statements, questions, commands, exclamations and question tags.

1. Use of stress and intonation in newspaper headings To Mr. SHOAIL FALAK SHER By Muhammad Nasir Kahlown, Sarfraz Munir Chaudhary

12. You must be a bit more patient. m ə s(t) m ʌ st Must What can you do with it? k ə n k æ n Can They should be here by now. ʃ ə d ʃ ʊ d Should What could I do? k ə d k ʊ d Could She said she would be here. w ə d w ʊ d Would They were bored. w ə (r) w ɜ : Were I was quite interested. w ə z w ɒ z was John and Mary are here. ə (r)* ɑ : Are Where do you live? d ə du: Do Example Weak Form Strong Form Auxiliary verbs

13. What's the time? ð ə , ð i (before a vowel) ð i: The He's an idiot! ə n æ n an Take a good book. ə e ɪ A I'll give her a ring later. (h) ə (r)* h ɜ : (r) her (as object pronoun) Where's your jumper? j ə (r) j ɔ : your Where do you live? j ə ju: you (as object pronoun) The dog that bit me ... ð ət ð æt that (as a relative) It's faster than mine. ðən ð æn Than ...but one of the main points... b ə t b ʌ t but Rock 'n' roll. ə nd, ə n , n̩ æ nd And Example Weak Form Strong Form Others

27. Functions Of Intonation