| 11. | The body's primary stress management system is the HPA axis.
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| 12. | If the ultimate syllable is heavy, then primary stress falls on the ultimate syllable.
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| 13. | Primary stress falls on the final syllable of the stem.
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| 14. | Primary stress may fall on the ultimate or penultimate syllable.
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| 15. | If a word has any heavy syllables, primary stress falls on the leftmost heavy syllable.
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| 16. | Verbs and nouns follow different rules for primary stress.
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| 17. | Otherwise, primary stress falls on the rightmost syllable.
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| 18. | Primary stress occurs on the penultima ( the next-to-last syllable ) 80 % of the time.
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| 19. | Siddurim may use meteg to mark primary stress.
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| 20. | All words must have a single primary stress.
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