Glossary: stress
Explanation
A syllable is stressed if it is pronounced more forcefully than the syllables next to it. The other syllables are unstressed.
- about
- visit
The emphasis that a speaker places on a word or syllable of a word makes the word or syllable louder, higher, and/or longer than other words or syllables. Words have characteristic stress patterns: for example, tiger is stressed on the first syllable while about is stressed on the second syllable.
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