II. Word Stress
----- nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
In a poly-syllabled word, it is natural to
stress on a particular syllable and the stressed syllable is louder, longer in
duration and higher in pitch than the surrounding syllables in a word.
You may capitalise that particular syllable,
for example, responsiBIlity.
You may use a stress mark (diacritic) on the
top before the primary stressed syllable and the secondary stress mark on the
bottom before the syllable to indicate.
For example, reˌsponsi'bility
----- Mono-syllabled words
A monosyllabled word consists of one
syllable only and it is always stressed.
-----Poly-syllabled words
For words more than 2 syllables, the nature
of the vowel or peak of the various syllables must be reconsidered.
The syllable next to the last is called
pen-ultimate position ( 3rd syllable in the 4-syllabled word; 4th
syllable in 5-syllabled word; 5th syllable in the 6 –syllabled word)
The syllable before pen-ultimate syllable is
called ante-pen-ultimate.
The stress falls on either pen-ultimate or
ante-pen-ultimate poly-syllabled words.
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