AN ANALYSIS OF 'STRESS' IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE:A STUDY OF THE RULES AND APPROACHES.

In linguistics stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain
syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. English is what is
known as a stressed language; stressed languages that are with differing levels of
emphasis for the different words and syllables in the sentence. Native speakers of
English use stress naturally. Word phrase or sentence is so natural for them that they
don"t even know they use it. Non-native speakers, who speak English to native
speakers without using word stress, encounter two problems. They find it difficult to
understand native speakers, especially those speaking fast and the speakers of
English will get insight in learning the rules of stress.