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]]> To Stress or Not to Stress? A Primer on the Music of Language https://old.wordsbyapro.com/stress-not-stress-primer-music-language/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stress-not-stress-primer-music-language https://old.wordsbyapro.com/stress-not-stress-primer-music-language/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:04:12 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1876 Ahh, the music of language. We’ve all heard the phrase before, but many of us haven’t given much thought to what it actually means. Is it how words sound? The “flow” of a sentence? Or something more? There are plenty of factors at work that can explain the musicality of a language, but today I’d […]

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