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Download full textDickerson, Wayne B. – 1974
This paper attempts a systematic approach to the teaching of word stress in the ESL classroom. Stress assignment rules from Chomsky and Halle and from Ross are used to establish the SISL Principle (Stress Initial Strong Left), for final weak-syllable words. On the basis of spelling, this rule can be applied correctly to 95 out of 100 cases. (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Consonants, English (Second Language)
