Introduction
The main concern of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is having an accurate and, fluent speech production. Suprasegmental phonology has the major role in the intelligibility of speech required for the interaction between the listener and the speaker; or native and non-native speakers. Rhythm and stress are particularly important for English, because English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners have significantly different stress systems in their L1.
Stress in this context is defined as the degree of force or emphasis with which a speaker utters a sound or a syllable. It is also defined as the degree of prominence an element ( ...