At 7.5 months, infants appear to be able to segment bisyllabic words with strong-weak stress patterns, though weak-strong stress patterns are often misinterpreted, e . g . interpreting " guiTAR is " as " GUI TARis ".
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The anthem is divided into four quatrain stanzas, each containing four system of scansion, which is as follows : \ / ? \ / ? \ / ? \ / where \ is an intermediate stress, / is a strong stress, and ? is unstressed.
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Perhaps the most salient characteristic of French vowel history is the development of a strong stress accent usually ascribed to the influence of the Germanic languages that led to the disappearance of most unstressed vowels and to pervasive differences in the pronunciation of stressed vowels in originally lengthened, after which most of the long vowels turned into diphthongs.
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Its long survival must have a lot to do with its cadence, and the way that an especially strong stress can be placed on the H . You might also think of it as an example of emphatic infixing that loosely fits the models of words like " abso-bloody-lutely " or " tribu-bloody-lation ".
