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Zorluk: OrtaEmphatic Stress

Read the dialogue below and identify the specific word in the response sentence that must carry emphatic stress.

Cevap:Consider the following conversational exchange:
Question: "Did the chief ARCHITECT approve the structural blueprints yesterday?"
Response: "No, the chief ENGINEER approved the structural blueprints yesterday."

To correctly convey the contrastive focus refuting the question, the word in the response sentence that MUST carry primary emphatic stress is 【ENGINEER】.

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The word that must carry primary emphatic stress is ENGINEER.
In Oral English, emphatic stress is placed on the word that provides contrastive focus. In this dialogue, the question asks whether the 'architect' approved the blueprints. The response refutes this by asserting that the 'engineer' approved them. Because 'ENGINEER' is the only word in the response that contradicts and updates the information from the question, it must carry the primary emphatic stress.

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1
Compare the question with the response to locate the point of contrast.
The question specifies 'ARCHITECT', while the response substitutes 'ENGINEER'. All other structural elements ('chief', 'approved', 'structural blueprints', 'yesterday') remain unchanged.
Emphatic stress in English phonology highlights contrastive focus—specifically the word that corrects or contradicts information in the preceding prompt.
2
Determine which word receives the emphatic stress in the response sentence.
Because 'ENGINEER' replaces 'ARCHITECT' to deliver the corrected factual information, 'ENGINEER' receives the primary stress.
Placing emphatic stress on 'ENGINEER' signals to the listener that the occupation is the single piece of information being corrected.

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Emphatic Stress and Contrastive Focus
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Emphatic Stress

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