adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
syllable
▪
These words show very clearly the difficulty of the unstressed syllable .
▪
The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables .
▪
In one sense, the error to be noted is the unstressed syllable rather than the others: plain for plane is understandable.
▪
It is usual for unstressed syllables to continue the pitch of the stressed syllable that precedes them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Health is described by phrases such as being happy, being unstressed and being able to cope.
▪
I have reproduced the unstressed results from the last chapter for the purposes of comparison.
▪
These words show very clearly the difficulty of the unstressed syllable.
▪
Three stressed sets of test utterances were included, derived from the corresponding unstressed sets.