Dave asked:


I’m just starting to get in to the realization that it isn’t just what you say, it’s how you say it ._.

Say someone says one thing much more emphasized than everything else in a sentence. Even if it’s the second-brought-up thing in the sentence, would that mean that by the speaker emphasizing the word by stressing it more it is the thing the speaker is expecting to happen?

For example I was in a coffee shop the other day and I overheard bits of a convo that piqued my interest about speech emphasis. It went somewhat like this:

“…because your daughter is in a different place than the other students doesn’t mean that she won’t ever catch up to or be more *advanced* than her classmates, and I feel that she will…”

The guy, I’m assuming was a teacher, said the word ‘advanced’ far more stressingly than any other words in that chat. I’m curious — even though he said ‘catch up to’ as a possibility, would that mean that the emphasis he put on ‘advanced’ be more of a stress of how he feels that the girl would not only catch up to BUT surpass the others, based on his emphasis on that word?

Jacqueline