unstressed
Origin of unstressed
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How to use unstressed in a sentence
Initial h before unstressed vowels is only pronounced when preceded by a pause.
The Sounds of Spoken English | Walter RippmannBegan: notice the quality of the vowel in the first, unstressed syllable of this word.
The Sounds of Spoken English | Walter RippmannYou use more force for the stressed than for the unstressed vowels, that is to say, you put more breath into them.
The Sounds of Spoken English | Walter RippmannThe monotony of a series of stressed or of unstressed sounds would be unbearable.
Division of Words | Frederick W. HamiltonHere the assonance is -er (final unstressed -er in standard present-day English represents vocalic r).
Modern Spanish Lyrics | Various
British Dictionary definitions for unstressed
/ (ʌnˈstrɛst) /
carrying relatively little stress; unemphasized
phonetics of, relating to, or denoting the weakest accent in a word or breath group, which in some languages, such as English or German, is also associated with a reduction in vowel quality to a centralized (i) or (a)
prosody (of a syllable in verse) having no stress or accent
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