Sentence stress, prominence, or focus
The word or syllable in each thought group that receives more stress than the others
is called the prominent word, the focus, or the word with sentence stress. It is often
the stressed syllable of the last content word in the sentence or thought group. It can
also be the stressed syllable of a word that is being emphasized or contrasted with
another word.
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