Stress Patterns Quotes

Accent [emphasis] is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

Syllables govern the world.

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the syntax, the paragraph, and the way the heart moves when you read it.

The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'

There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.