ABSTRACT
Every sentence in Mandarin has at least one syllable that receives greater stress than the other syllables. We call this kind of stress sentence stress. The syllable that receives sentence stress is recited louder or longer than the other syllables in the sentence. The stressed syllable is always a syllable that has a full tone. Syllables that occur in neutral tone are never stressed. Sometimes the location of sentence stress is predictable. In this lesson we focus on sentence stress in several predictable contexts.
