Syntactic prominence patterns

Prominence is really a properly of words, such that one word is given extra strength compared to its neighbours. This however is manifested in the lexically stressed syllable of that word receiving the extra strength, rather than all the syllables of the word. It is widely accepted that some, but not all, of the prominence pattern in a sentence is governed by the syntax within that sentence. 

A first type of effect is that of nuclear prominence, which describes the particular prominence that often falls on the last content word in sentence. In the following examples, we have marked this word in bold  

These examples are what are often termed discourse neutral renderings, indicating the normaf or canonical way these sentences are phrases are spoken, in contrast to some of the ways in which they may be spoken in particular discourse contexts. 

Prominence patterns are particularly noticeable in sequences of adjectives and nouns which are collectively called compound noun phrases. For example 

The final main type of syntactic prominence concerns function words. A very simple rule is that content words (nouns, verbs etc) can have normal or extra levels of prominence but function words are reduced. This certainly covers many simple cases so that in 

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