Stress (definition)

Stress refers to the prominence of certain syllables relative to others in terms of loudness, length and pitch. Stress in Gaelic is almost always on the initial (first) syllable of a word.

See Also

• Intonation (definition)
• Prosody (definition)

External Links

• http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Unstressed_vowels

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

References

• Ladefoged, D. (2010) A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.