The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
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Stress<br />
Segmental Independence<br />
In most stress languages, stressed syllables have higher pitch than<br />
unstressed syllables. <strong>The</strong> duration <strong>of</strong> the stressed syllable is <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
longer (as in English, Polish) and its loudness may also be greater.<br />
In English, French, Russian, and Estonian unstressed syllables have<br />
reduced vowels, or a reduced set <strong>of</strong> vowels, e.g. Russian [i, e, a, o, u]<br />
in stressed syllables but [i, u, @] in unstressed syllables.<br />
But... stress can be a tricky thing, especially in larger prosodic<br />
contexts (compounds, phrases, sentences).<br />
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