ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.

Detailed explanation-2: -Word stress is the emphasis we place in a specific syllable of a word when pronouncing it. In English words that have more than one syllable, we usually don’t pronounce every syllable with the same weight, so each syllable in a word can be stressed or unstressed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Basically, this means that we say it louder than the other syllables. A key point is that accent has to do with how the vowel sounds. An accented syllable will fully pronounce the vowel sound, while unaccented syllables have less emphasized vowels and possibly even the schwa sound.

Detailed explanation-4: -From Glottopedia. In the linguistics of Semitic languages, the term emphasis is used as a synonym of the pharyngealization (a distinctive phonetic property of consonants, called emphatic consonants).

Detailed explanation-5: -In most English dictionaries, the stressed syllable is indicated by a stress mark, a symbol that resembles an apostrophe. The stress mark follows the syllable that is stressed. For example, in the word incredible, the second syllable (-cred-) is stressed.