Word stress is predictable in words of one to four syllables but not in words of five or more syllables.
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Now substitute the word stress for air, and child for balloon, and you have a good idea what's worrying many educators.
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Also note that French has no word stress, but only phrasal intonation .-- Lambiam 14 : 45, 15 July 2007 ( UTC)
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Word stress generally falls on the first syllable in finite verb forms and on the last syllable in nouns and noun-like words.
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Word stress is not fixed to a certain position of a root; this leads to alternations of stressed mid vowels with unstressed high vowels.
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It is often implied but it is not true that word stress plays no part in the syllabic prosody of these languages.
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But, even after the word stress had been elaborately translated into Greenlandic, about one-quarter of respondents said they did not know what the doctors were talking about.
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When one of these suffixes is added to a word, the word stress shifts from the initial syllable to the final syllable ending with one of these suffixes.
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Tonal word stress ( a ninth-century change ) is present in all Slavic languages, and Proto-Slavic reflects the language probably spoken at the end of the first millennium.
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Mazahua is a tonal language and distinguishes high, low, and falling tones on all syllables except the final syllable of a word, on which the word stress falls predictably.
