重音重要嗎? 是為什麼呢? Do you say "perfect or perfect"? 重音到底要如何去唸呢? 今天的單元讓我們來為你解答!
Tonal language (the change of tone would change the meaning of the word)
Vietnamese, Thai, Cantonese and Mandarin
Pitch language
Japanese, they depends on the intonation to deliver the message
Stress Language - English
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.
Some language operates with fixed stresses but some are not. For example, phonemic stress.
Languages in which the position of stress in a word is not fully predictable are said to have phonemic stress. For example, English, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
The position of stress can serve to distinguish otherwise identical words. For example, the English words insight (/ˈɪnsaɪt/) and incite (/ɪnˈsaɪt/) are distinguished in pronunciation only by the fact that the stress falls on the first syllable in the former and on the second syllable in the latter.