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- Title
The Nature of Stress in English Language A Study from a Perspective of Rule-Governed Approach.
- Authors
ul Hassan, Sardar Fayyaz
- Abstract
This paper aims to focus on the stress pattern in English Language (EL). Learning the rules of stress in EL is a complex phenomenon. This article is an endeavor to look at this complex phenomenon in detail. The paper describes the rules both, in words and sentence levels. It gives information about the placement of stress in content and function words. The issue of primary and secondary stress has been discussed in the article. This research work presents too, the context, in which weak form words are stressed. The whole research work is done with the hope that the non-native speakers of English will get insight in learning the rules of stress and the work can also be utilized as guidelines for more scientific research in this area.
- Subjects
ACCENTS &; accentuation in the English language; STRESS (Linguistics); LEARNING; LANGUAGE research; EDUCATION research
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 12, p362
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article