Spoken American English has different types of stress. There is syllable stress which is the stress within a particular word. Then there is word stress which is the way content, focus and function words are stressed in a sentence or thought group. For both types of stress you need to be aware of pitch, vowel length and the schwa sound.
Click here to watch a 6 minute video where Rachel of Rachel’s English describes content words in American English.
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