HOW IMPORTANCE IS WORD AND SENTENCE STRESS IN SPOKEN ENGLISH
الخلاصة
Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the importance of “The word and sentence stress in spoken English”, compared to other languages, and also how and when the speaker could put the stress and the difference between stressing and unstressing. Sentence stress is something like the music of spoken English. Also, stress is what gives English its rhythm or tone to the syllables and words. Like word stress, sentence stress can help you to understand spoken English, especially when speaking fast. It is an accent on certain words within a sentence. A typical English utterance is marked with a sentence stress, that is, a prominence on one word or syllable that is greater than other lexical stresses in the clause or utterance. This stress consists of a pitch prominence that demarcates the into national phrase. An optimality theory analysis of sentence stress is presented here, which integrates insights from the generative and applied linguistic approaches under one framework. Sentence stress is explained in terms of the interactions between prosodic structure, stress, syntax and information structure, that is, stress assignment on the main focus or most prominent information. The constraints and interaction can explain some stress types that are not handled so well by traditional generative approaches, and also address some stress patterns and linguistic structures that functional accounts do not address. The optimality framework can explain this interface of different linguistic domains, and this interface can better explain. So, in English sentences, stress, word stress is your magic key to understanding spoken English. Native speakers of English use the word stress naturally. The word stress is so natural for them that they do not even know they use it .The research studies the role played by stress and rhythm in English. The effect of stress on the phonetic realization of segments, the morphological and syntactic function of elements and the structuring of information in the sentences are considered. English rhyme is studied and the factors that contribute to maintaining a regular stress-timed rhyme are presented. Also, when learners are acquiring another language, they face a number of problems as every language is where sentence clauses or utterances typically contain older or topical information, and a set of newer information.