According to Ladefoged's analysis (as referred to under above), English normally has prosodic stress on the final stressed syllable in an intonation unit. This is said to be the origin of the distinction traditionally made at the lexical level between primary and secondary stress: when a word like "admiration" (traditionally transcribed as something like ) is spoken in isolation, or at the end of a sentence, the syllable "ra" (the final stressed syllable) is pronounced with greater force than the syllable "ad", although when the word is not pronounced with this final intonation there may be no difference between the levels of stress of these two syllables.