Stress is a prominent feature of the English language, both at the level of the word (lexical stress) and at the level of the phrase or sentence (prosodic stress). Absence of stress on a syllable, or on a word in some cases, is … 展开

Descriptions with primary and secondary stress
In many phonological approaches, and in many dictionaries, English is represented as having two levels of … 展开

Reduced vowels frequently alternate with full vowels: a given word or morpheme may be pronounced with a reduced vowel in some instances and a full vowel in other instances, usually … 展开

Lexical stress (word stress) is regarded as phonemic in English; the position of the stress is generally unpredictable and can serve to distinguish words. … 展开

All full (unreduced; also called strong) vowels may occur in unstressed position (except under theoretical approaches that routinely assign secondary or tertiary stress to syllables … 展开

As mentioned in the previous section, some linguists postulate a phonemic distinction between syllables that contain reduced vowels (as listed above – syllabic consonants are also … 展开

• English phonology
• Schwa
• Tenseness
• Vowel reduction
• Initial-stress-derived nouns 展开