FUNCTIONS, PLACEMENT AND DEGREES OF WORD STRESS

Word stress is one of the most essential elements in phonology, accompanied by segmental phonemes to express the specific meanings of vocabulary, grammar, etc. It has an identificatory factory function because stress patterns of words enable people to identify definite combinations of sounds as meaningful linguistic units. Distressing the stress pattern may hamper understanding or produce a strange accent.

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