Stress Placement
Stress Placement
Stress Placement
:Levels of stress*
.Primary stress .1
.Secondary stress .2
.Weak stress .3
Stress placement
In order to decide on stress placement we should make use of these
:factors to help us
Decide whether the word is simple or complex or compound .1
.Simple word: one grammatical unit*
.Complex word: contains of stem + affixes (suffixes and prefixes)*
Compound word: two independent words (each type of them has its *
.rules in stress placement)
.What is the part of speech of this word (noun, verb, adjective ....) .2
.How many syllables the word has .3
What the phonological structure of the syllable is (it has coda or not, .4
.what the nucleus ....)
It's possible to divide syllable into two basic categories (strong and
weak) and this will be helpful in stress placement because we find the
.stress in the strong syllable not in the weak syllable
:Compound words
If the 2 words are nouns, the stress will be on the first word .1
./e.g. /'taip rait
.If the first word is an adjective and the second word ends with {ed} .2
e.g. /bad-'tempered/ the stress will be on the second BUT when a noun
.comes after it the noun will carry the stress
./e.g. /bad tempered 'teacher
.If the numbers are multiply of 10 .3
.e.g. /'one hundred/ the stress will be on the first word
Compound that the first word is a number; the stress will be on the .4
.second word
.Compound working as adverb .5
.e.g. /down 'stream/ the stress will be on the second word
compound functioning as adjective/thirteen 'centimeter/ the stress .6
.will be on the second word
compound functioning as verb /back 'pedal/ the stress will be on the .7
.second word
In phrasal verbs: if a preposition comes after the verb, the preposition .8
will be stressed /take 'off/ if the preposition comes before the verb, the
/verb will be stressed /on 'go
.Proper names (composed of 2 words) .9
e.g. /mr 'ahmad/ and /khamis 'mushayt/the stress will be on the second
word
in reflexive pronoun/my 'self/the stress will be on the second . 10
.word
:Word-class pairs
.Words with identical spelling which differ from each other in stress
When it comes as verbs, the stress will be on the second syllable *
-When it comes as a noun or an adjective the stress will be on the first
.syllable