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    Stress, rhythm, and intonation are suprasegmental vocal features that significantly affect the sounds of English and help convey meaning. This document provides an introduction to these three features, with stress being the placement of stronger or weaker emphasis on syllables, rhythm involving the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and intonation as the rise and fall of the voice or pitch changes used in speech.

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    Stress, rhythm, and intonation are suprasegmental vocal features that significantly affect the sounds of English and help convey meaning. This document provides an introduction to these three features, with stress being the placement of stronger or weaker emphasis on syllables, rhythm involving the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and intonation as the rise and fall of the voice or pitch changes used in speech.

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    Stress, rhythm, and intonation are suprasegmental vocal features that significantly affect the sounds of English and help convey meaning. This document provides an introduction to these three features, with stress being the placement of stronger or weaker emphasis on syllables, rhythm involving the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and intonation as the rise and fall of the voice or pitch changes used in speech.

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    LAB

    Thus far, you have been studying the individual sounds of


    English. The sounds can be significantly affected by vocal
    features known as stress, rhythm, and intonation (also known
    as suprasegmental features). These vocal features help to
    convey meaning and must be used correctly if you are to e
    completely understood. Here you have a short introduction to
    these features:

    Stress is the first vocal feature we will deal with:


    Rhythm is the second feature we will present:
    Intonation is the final vocal feature you will learn about:

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