Становление системы средств выражения условных отношений в английском языке

The aim: to analyse the opinions, poins of view of phoneticians to accentual structure.
Tasks: 1) To give the definitions of word stress
2) To sigle out the nature of word stress and prominence
3) To study the degrees of word accent

Introduction……………………………………………………………………...3
Chapter I. English stress as a phenomenon. Types of syllables........................4
1.1 The nature of word stress and prominence........................................6
1.2 The placement of word stress............................................................8
Chapter II. The questions of typology of accentual structure...........................11
2.1 Degrees of stress and rhythmical tendency.......................................14
2.2 Functional aspects of word stress.....................................................16
2.3 Practical analysis showing the types of stress..................................19
Conclusion.......................................................................................................24
List of literature................................................................................................25