Stress (definition)

From Scottish Gaelic Grammar Wiki
Revision as of 11:23, 20 July 2009 by AndrewCarnie (talk | contribs)

Jump to: navigation, search


Stress a term used to describe a syllable that has emphasis in a word. Syllables that are emphasized may be louder, longer and either higher or lower in pitch than surrounding syllables.

External Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)

References