Stress in complex words

English does not seem to be at all consistent in the way it treats compounds, either from the point of view of writing or from the point of view of pronunciation and especially stress

Stress Placement • To decide on stress placement, it is necessary to make use of some or all of the following information: 1

How to use stress in a sentence

There are 10 useful rules for English learners to study if they want to improve their spoken English especially in terms of rhythm and intonation

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The reasons are either suffixes (like - ity or -ion ) or prefixes (like con- , dis-, ex- or in- )

– Heavy-’handed but Heavy-handed ‘sentence

The chapter about complex word stress discusses some main points such as complex words, suffixes, prefixes, compound words, variable stress and word-class pairs

Examples: democracy /de-MO-cra-cy/

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In the sentence below, “I never said he ate your chocolate”, the stressed word will change the meaning or implication of the sentence: Compound noun word stress A compound noun is created when two or more words (often an initial noun or an adjective that modifies a final noun) are joined together or used adjacent to one another so often that the combination of words is interpreted as a single noun

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Stress variation in English complex words Javier Sanz, Trier Universität, ELC, 11 May 2016 - An algorithm is a set of instructions which, when followed, generates a desired output

Ill give a couple of references to contrary proposals about English word stress, according to which the stress of complex forms is not based on the stress of the basic forms

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