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Stress a term used to describe a syllable that has emphasis in a wordSyllables that are emphasized may be louder, longer and either higher or lower in pitch than surrounding syllables.  
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Stress refers to the prominence of certain syllables relative to others in terms of loudness, length and pitch.   
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Stress in Gaelic is almost always on the initial (first) syllable of a word.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
[[Stress]]
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*[[Stress]]
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*[[Prosody (definition)]]
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
*http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Unstressed_vowels
 
*http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Unstressed_vowels
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)
 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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*Ladefoged, D. (2010) ''A Course in Phonetics''. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.
  
 
[[Category:Technical Definitions]]
 
[[Category:Technical Definitions]]
 
[[Category:Phonology]]
 
[[Category:Phonology]]
 
[[Category:Phonetics]]
 
[[Category:Phonetics]]

Revision as of 14:02, 16 June 2012

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

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

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