In every English word of two or more syllables at least one syllable be articulate with more force or loudness than the rest, and we call this phenomenon word stress.
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- The English words consist of at least one syllable, and many words have two, three, or more syllables and so do the Chinese words. ( )
- For good pronunciation, two kinds of stress should be paid attention to. The first is __________ stress which is to stress the proper syllable in multi-syllabic words. The second kind of stress is __________stress and each of them has one syllable that receives greater or more prominent stress than the others.
- One word has only ______ stress. We can only stress ________, not ________.
- A rhythm group contains more than one stressed syllable, together with unstressed syllables clustering about it or none.
- In more than three-syllable words, if the primary stress falls on the third syllable or later, the secondary stress are usually marked on one of the preceding syllables, for example, introduction / ɪntrə dʌkʃn/ and education / eʤu keɪʃn/.