full or
partial. Full sentence-stress in its
turn may be
unemphatic or
emphatic. Full unemphatic stress is indicated by single stress-
marks placed above the line of print, e.g.
'Open your 'books at 'page
ˎ
three.
Emphatic stress is effected by greater force of utterance, greater force of exhalation and
lengthening the sounds. Emphatically stressed syllables become more prominent and
sound louder than syllables with unemphatic stress.
'Stop `talking.
(an order given quietly)
. ''Stop ``talking!
(an order given very loudly, in anger)
. Partial stress is indicated by single stress - marks placed below the line
of print, e.g.
I
haven’t the 'slightest i
dea. There’s a `page
missing from this
book.
Words which are usually stressed in English unemphatic speech belong to the
notional parts of speech namely: nouns, adjectives, numerals, notional verbs, adverbs, demonstrative,
interrogative, emphasizing pronouns and the absolute form of the possessive pronouns, for
example, the words in bold type in the following sentences:
'Twenty 'minutes ˏ
later | he
'came out
of
'Number ˎ
7, | `pale, | with
his
'lips ↑tightly com`pressed | and
an
'odd ex`pression on
his
ˎ
face. 'Who was
'that on
the
ˎ
phone?
