A Comparative Semantic Study of Stress and Intonation Phenomena on Vocabularies Level in Hausa and Arabic Languages

This paper conducts a comparative semantic study of stress and intonation phenomena, in Hausa and Arabic Languages. It also, aims to shade lights on the concept of these phenomena, their type, influence and places of their existence in both languages. The paper again mentioned efforts made by ancient and modem Linguistics scholars in classifying languages into stressnal and non-stressnal, and intonation and non-intonatun; finally the paper explained the relationship between stress and intonation.