Now therin lies the rub. When you draw a picture certain clues tell you if an object is closer or further away. We use those visual clues to interpret the depths that we otherwise would just have to guess at. There are audio clues that also tell us which word to accent. Generally hard vowels are pushed to the front, the long a,o,i and so forth. The soft vowels receed. In consonnance the point of the mouth that produces the sound indicates how hard the chime will be. An "R" produced in the front of the mouth will chime stronger than an "l","RA" (ray) will chime stronger than "RE"(reh). Most people tend to stress words the same. Dialects still have the same stresses but the phonemes the short letter combinations are pronounced differently. Try the nonsense phrase Bay Bi Bi Boh Bi Beh and you find the Bay and the Boh coming to the front. That's the chime and a New Englander might pronounce it different than a Texan, but the same words would still ring out.