1、Unit 8 Sentence Stress in English (I),Sentence stress is the relative degree of force given to different words in a sentence. In general, in a sentence, content words are stressed, but function words are unstressed.Content word: A word, such as a noun, verb, or adjective, that has a statable lexical
2、 meaning, rather than indicating a syntactic function, as a function word does. 实词：有可陈述的语汇意义，例如名词、动词或形容词，而不是如同虚词一样地指示句法功能的字Function word: A word, such as a preposition, a conjunction, or an article, that has little semantic content of its own and chiefly indicates a grammatical relationship. Also ca
3、lled form word ,functor 功能词：如介词、连词或冠词等一类主要用于指明一种语法关系的语义很虚的词,Content word: giving information about who, what, when, where, why, howexpressing the main idea or content of the phrase or sentenceFunction word:connecting the content words to form grammatical sentences.,Content words are usually stressed
4、:,Function words are usually unstressed:,Unit 23 Sentence Stress in English (II),The stressing of some content words:,Content words are usually stressed in a sentence.Noun: the word street in street names is unstressed (e.g. Bridge Street, see exercise 1.1)Adverbs: There in there to be is unstressed
5、. (e.g. The house has many rooms and there is a lovely garden. see exercise 1.6),The stressing of some function words:,Function words are usually unstressed in a sentence.Pronouns: reflexive pronouns (反身代词，unstressed. E.g. Ive cut myself.), emphatic pronouns (强调势代词，stressed. E.g. I locked it myself.
6、) (see exercise 1.2), reciprocal pronouns (相互代词，unstressed. E.g. They like each other.) (see exercise 1.3) compound pronouns(复合代词，nobody somebody, someone, something, anybody, anyone, anything are stressed when they subjects, unstressed when they are objects.) (see exercise 1.4),Function words are u
7、sually unstressed in a sentence.Verbs that may be used as auxiliaries: 1. the affirmative forms (肯定形式) of be and auxiliary verbs are stressed in tag questions(附加疑问句) (e.g. She isnt a doctor, is she?) and at the beginning of questions (e.g. Have you finished?) (see exercise 1.5)； 2. may & might are s
8、tressed when indicating possibility (e.g. This may or may not be true.) (see exercise 1.7). Conjunctions: when the conjunctions have an emphatic meaning (e.g. although, even if/though), they are stressed. (see exercise 1.8),The stressing of some function words:,Sentence containing repeated words: when a sentence contains a word that has just been used, that word is generally unstressed. (e.g. How many times have you been there? Three times) (see exercise 2.1-2.6),
