#Types of utterance stress. Factors conditioning the location of utterance stress.
The distribution of stresses in an utterance depends on several factors (Torsuyev): 1. Semantic - the semantic centre of an utterance is singled out by the nuclear stress, in their turn non-nuclear full stresses signal greater semantic value than partial stresses; notional word are predisposed to be stressed; 2. Grammatical - grammatical structure determines the accentual structure (the inverted word order for expressing question requires stress on the auxiliary verb); 3. Rhythmical - notional words may be or unstressed and form words may be stressed due to the English rhythm.