4. IS SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURE OF
LANGUANGE THAT’S IS OCCUR
SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH SEGMENTS, THE
CONSONANT AND VOWEL DESCRIBED IN
PERCEDING CHAPTERS
5.
6. CHARACTERISTICS OF
• LOUDER IN VOLUME
• LONGER IN DURATION
• HIGHER IN PITCH
WHEN A SYLLABLE IS STRESSED, IT IS
7. LEVEL OF STRE
Unstressed : having no
recognizable
amount of prominence.
Primary Stress (‘) : stress which
the most
prominence
Secondary stress (,) : stronger than
unstressed but weaker
than the
13. SUFFIXES
Is a group of letters placed at the end
of a word to make a new word.
A suffix can make a new word in one of two ways:
• Inflectional (grammatical)
• Derivational (the new word has a new meaning,
"derived" from the original word)
15. STRESS-PRESERVING
SUFFIXES produce change in stress
placement in words.
An example is the suffix –Ful, which
changes a noun into an adjectives,
For example:
‘wonder/’wonderful.
‘beauty/’beautiful.
‘success/’successful.
16. Receive primary stress: for example, -ee,
which changes a verb into a noun as in,
STRESS-ATTRACTING S
for example:
em’ploy/ employ’ee.
re’fuge/refug’ee
17. Make the stress shift, but not to the suffix that
caused shift.
An example of a stress-shifting suffix is –ive,
which changes a noun into an adjective ,
For example:
‘reflex/re’flexive
STRESS-SHIFTING SUFFIXES