Guess the Stress

This is a Q&A game where you can listen to sentences and then guess where in that sentence the most emphasis is placed.

Intonation is the music of the language. In English, we use pitch to signal emotion, sentence structure, and change in meaning among many other things. In every sentence in English, there is one main emphasised syllable or word. The vowel sound in this syllable sounds higher in pitch, longer, and louder, and this is what we call stress. This helps create the rhythm of the language, and knowing how to recognize the stressed syllable is a big part of knowing how to speak a language.

Testing

Instructions

We currently have interactive tests and examples for:

English [about]

Romanian [about]

Hungarian [about]

About this site

This site was created in May 2004, as a student project for the Multimedia course within the Endangered Languages Academic Programme, at SOAS, University of London. The course was run by David Nathan and Robert Munro.

This site was designed by:: Henrik Bergqvist; Peter Budd; Bernard Howard; Friederike Lüpke; Robert Munro; Serge Sagna

The site content was based on data provided by Bob Ladd, University of Edinburgh.

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