Many Chinese students always meet some problems which affect their fluency in reading English, including the suprasegmental phonemes like liason, sentence stress and rhythm.

This essay deals with the features of sentence stress and intonation along with the implications to English teaching.

The unstressed in Chinese can distinguish the part of speech of words and lexical meaning,which accomplished by the stress in English;The sentence stress plays the same role in both languages,such as altering the.

This research, by conducting acoustic features analysis and perception experiments on 10 speakers speech material which contain four Chinese words (生物、明天、凉鞋、花茶), has found that the inner semantic structure of Chinese words can influence the distribution of acoustic cues of sentence prominence across the syllables of these words.

This research, by conducting acoustic features analysis and perception experiments on 10 speakers speech material which contained two couples of Chinese homophones ("qu(4)shi(4)"("interesting thing"or "dying out") and "sheng(1)xue(2)" ("acousics" or "entering a higher school ")), has found that it is the sentence prominence, other than the stress, that disambiquite the two couples of homophones.