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Analysis Of The Use Of Sentence Stress Among Selected Undergraduate Students
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Undoubtedly, this decisive factor works much
better, although it runs into problems because speakers can and do make
pauses not only between words but also between syllables, for example
for emphasis. Although there is another way of how the sound structure
can tell us something about the nature of the word as a linguistic unit
in that one should think of stress and in countless languages (including
English) the word is the unit that is fundamental for the occurrence
and distribution of stress whereby spoken in isolation, every word can
have only one main stress, as indicated by the acute accents (´) in the
data presented in (3) below (note that one speak of linguistic ‘data’
when we refer to language examples to be analyzed).
(3) –carpenter, textbook, wáter analysis, féderal syllable, mótherunderstánd
Without doubt, the main stressed syllable is the syllable which is the most prominent one in a word.
Notably,
prominence of a syllable is a role of intensity, pitch and length, with
stressed syllables being pronounced louder, by means of elevated pitch,
or with longer duration than the neighboring syllable(s) in which
longer words repeatedly have superfluous, weaker stresses, known to be
secondary stresses, which often ignore here for straightforwardness’s
sake of which often times terms to be deliberate act of short cut.
1.5 Scope of the study:
The
scope of this study is not expected to grasp in detail all that may
have been needed to develop the topic of the study in view of its wide
and its natural troubles associated with obtaining data because of time
constrictions which will obstruct a useful detailed development of the
research topic.
1.6 Methodology
Methodological methodology
entails data collection whereby the subjects were made to read some
semantically biased sentences containing some homographic lexical items
and the subjects’ readings were recorded and analyzed. However, 24
(twenty four) undergraduate students of English language of the
ObafemiAwolowo University were used as the subjects for this study of
which six subjects made up of 3 students each from Yoruba and Igbo
taking outs were drawn from 100 level to 400 level. The selection due to
the fact that they fall within the accepted ranges of students’
admission guiding principle, distinct the Hausa counterparts those are
not available in the department.
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