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