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The position of stress can change the meaning or word class of a word , and so forms part the phonological composition of the word e.g"


It is necessary to consider what factor make syllable count as stressed. stressed syllabled are produced with grater effort than unstressed. This effort is manifested in the air pressure generated in the lungs for producing the syllable and also in the articulatory movements in the vocal tract. Theses effects of stress produced in turn various syllable audible results : one is "pitch prominence", in which the stressed stands out from its context. Another effect of stress is that stressed syllable tend to be longer  - this is very noticeable in English , less so in some other languages. Also stressed syllable tend to be louder than un stressed , though experiments have shown that difference in loudness alone are not very noticeable to most listeners. It has been suggested by many writers that the term "accent" should be used to refer to some of the manifestations of stress , but the word, though widely used, has never acquired a distinct meaning of its own 


One of the area in which little agreement is that of "level" of stress. Some descriptions of languages manage with just two levels (stressed, and unstressed), while others use more. In English, one take the word indictor as an example, the first syllable is the most strongly stressed, the third syllable in the next most strongly stressed and the second and fourth syllable are weakly stressed , or unstressed