Unit 8
Stressed Syllables & Unstressed Syllables

Word Stress
English is a stress timed language        The English language is often referred to as stress-timed. Stress in a spoken sentence occurs at regular intervals and the time to say something depends on the number of stressed syllables rather than the number of syllables itself. 1 2 3 4 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 1 and then a 2 and then a 3 and then a 4
Word Stress
A word stress means a prominent syllable