Abstract:
This research deals with the analysis of Hillary Clinton’s Address of the Final
Presidential Candidate Debate. The objectives of the study were (1) to find out the
levels of word stress used by Hillary Clinton in the debate. (2) to find out the
function of word stress used by Hillary Clinton in the debate. The source of this
research is final presidential candidate debate video on youtube and the script of
Hillary Clinton from internet. Decriptive qualitative was applied to analyze
Suprasegmental Features on Hillary Clinton’s Address of the Final Presidential
Candidate Debate that was focused on stress. There were four levels of word
stress found on Hillary Clinton’s Address of the Final Presidential Candidate
Debate, they were Primary Stress, Secondary Stress, Tertiary Stress, and Weak
Stress. Then, the function of word stress found on Hillary Clinton’s Address in
the debate were as a Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Preposition,
Conjunction, Article, Negation, Quantifier, and Auxiliary Verb.