sentence stress

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   the distribution of stresses within a sentence

   Broaderstress

Questions about sentence stress

What does sentence stress mean?

sentence stress means "the distribution of stresses within a sentence".

Is sentence stress a common word?

sentence stress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.