Yes. Agree? Disagree?
Each word has a piece that gets more emphasis, more accent. But the whole sentence has certain words that are highlighted, giving it a certain meaning. But that exaggeration or stress on certain words in a sentence is just like music phrasing, isn't it?
And then a brief group of sentences, whatever that is with speech, if it's a paragraph or whatever, that also has stress in certain spots, though broader. That's similar to shaping a section of a piece of music.
The stress for sentences and then for sections keeps getting more and more broad. It's not nearly as precise or well-defined as it is for a single word, but then it's not as hard either.