Stress Levels in Italian and English: Some Similarities and Differences.

d'Eugenio, Antonio

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Publication Date: 1975

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Stress Levels in Italian and English: Some Similarities and Differences

d'Eugenio, Antonio

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 13, 3, 239-240, Aug 75

Both Italian and English have four degrees of stress: emphatic, main, secondary and weak. This paper outlines some similarities, then reviews differences between the languages that can cause difficulties in learning the second language. (CHK)

Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Intonation, Italian, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Stress (Phonology), Suprasegmentals, Syllables

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