• 2022-06-08
    中国大学MOOC: Just as in music, spoken English moves in regular, rhythmic beats from stress to stress – irrespective of how many unstressed syllables fall in between.
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      English has the stress-timed rhythm, which means in English stressed syllables occur at roughly regular intervals of time with an uneven number of unstressed syllables between them. ( )

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      The notion of rhythm comes from the unstressed syllables. Word and sentence stress combine to create the rhythm of an English utterance.‏‏‏

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      Rhythm in English speech is based on stress. A rhythm unit is formed by a stressed syllable, together with unstressed syllables which may come before that stress and/or after it.

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      中国大学MOOC: Word stress in English is not as predictable as it is in other languages, and therefore, the stress placement in English words is not rule-governe

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      中国大学MOOC: Word stress in English is not as predictable as it is in other languages, and therefore, the stress placement in English words is not rule-governed.