is as shown in (11a). However,in the context of expressed or implied contrast with another star, stress shifts tobig,as
in (11b). Notice also how intonation shifts with the stress.
Notice that the contrastive stress affects primarily the main stress of the contrasting word and not the other stresses;
for example the Determinerahas the same stress in (11a) and (11b). It is also worth noting that these contrastive
effects occur evenwhenthere is no appreciablesyntacticstructure. Consider theutterances in (12), possiblymade by a
radio announcer during a baseball game.
When the scores are the same, as in (12b), the highest stress shifts to the the team names, which still contrast.
Next let us return to syllabic structure. The string of speech sounds grouped into syllables has to match up with the
string of speechsounds thatidentifies thewords and affixes of theutterance—themorphophonologyof (1). However,the
syllabic groupings do not have to coincide with the morphophonological groupings, as seen in cases like (13).