| 31. | Primary stress occurs on every long vowel or diphthong that is in the next-to-last syllable of a word.
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| 32. | All heavy syllables take at least secondary stress, and possibly primary stress depending on their position within the word.
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| 33. | Syllables having primary stress are in boldface; syllables having secondary stress are in roman type; unstressed syllables are in italics.
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| 34. | Placing a light syllable suffix "-ta " " with " after a four syllable root shows shifting of primary stress:
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| 35. | In general, though, the strong syllable in the third foot from the end of a word receives the primary stress.
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| 36. | According to, secondary stress falls on the second syllable following the primary stress and iteratively thereafter on every second syllable.
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| 37. | This was meant to reflect the stress-timing where the major syllable always has primary stress, resulting in a perceived lengthened vowel.
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| 38. | Some compounds, however, have primary stress on both the first and the second member, e . g . ('a terrible lie').
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| 39. | In most words the primary stress falls on the penultimate vowel and secondary stresses fall on every second syllable preceding that.
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| 40. | :: : : : Note incidentally that the verb and adjective are still pronounced differently, although with the same primary stress.
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