the meaning of such as the width of a table
if someone says , for example, "the width of a table", does the
speaker put emphasis on "the width", right?
Or does it depends on a context?
Sometimes he intends to put emphasis on "a table" and sometimes on "the width"? I mean sometimes it rather means "a table whose width is the width" than "the width that a table has" and sometimes the other way around?
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It depends on the context. The two main content words are width and table in this sentence. If you want to talk about width and not about length...then you are going to stress or put emphasis on the word width. If you are talking about width of different items/furniture in the room and want to specifically talk about the table, then you will stress the word table.
When you stress the content word like width or table (only one of those most of the times) in the above sentence, you stress the main syllable in that word.
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