1. Stress

2. What is stress?

3. What is stress?
Prominence on a particular syllable

4. What makes the prominence?
It’s language dependent

5. What makes the prominence?
It’s language dependent
It can be a mixture of
Amplitude
Length
Pitch

6. What makes the prominence?
Higher pitch
[depósito deposíto depositó]

7. What makes the prominence?
Higher amplitude
[apójo]

8. What makes the prominence?
Longer vowels
[belézə]

9. What makes the prominence?
Phone variation

10. What makes the prominence?
Phone variation
Unstressed vowels in English tend to become [ə]
Cómbine [kham]
Combíne [khəm]

11. What makes the prominence?
Phone variation
Unstressed vowels in English tend to become [ə]
Unstressed [o] in Catalan is [u]

12. Predicable stress in some languages
French
Stress falls on last syllable unless unless last syllable is schwa
If last syllable is schwa stress falls on penultimate syllable

13. Predicable stress in some languages
Spanish (~90% correct
Penultimate stress if word ends in V, [n, s]
Final stress if word ends in C (except [n, s])

14. Some words don’t get stress
In English we generally don’t stress
In, to, for, us, the, a, him, she

15. Morphology influences stress
-ness, -less don’t influence
Sérious, sériousness
Pówer, Pówerless

16. Morphology influences stress
-ness, -less don’t influence
Sérious, sériousness
Pówer, Pówerless
-ic, -ee do influence
Phótograph, photográphic
Ábsent, absentée

17. What is the stress rule?