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From text to speech: The MITalk system
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followed by a morph-final syllable containing a short vowel
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and zero or more consonants (e.g. secretariat—ss EH KK
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RR EH TT 'AE RR IY AE TT).
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d. Assign 1-stress to the vowel in a syllable preceding a vowel
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followed by a morph-final vowel (e.g. oratorio—20 RR AE
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TT ‘A0 RR IY OW).
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2.V =5 [1-stress] / X— co{ | short|co/ v }
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where X must contain all prefixes.
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a. Assign 1-stress to the vowel in a syllable preceding a short
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vowel and zero or more consonants (e.g. edit—‘EH DD IH
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7T, bitumen—BB AY TT ‘UW MM EH NN).
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b. Assign 1-stress to the vowel in a syllable preceding a morph-
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final vowel (e.g. agenda—AE JJ 'EH NN DD AE).
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3.V — [l-stress] / X—C,
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where X must contain all prefixes.
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a. Assign 1-stress to the vowel in the last syllable (e.g. stand —
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SS TT ’AE NN DD, §0—GG ’OW, parole—PP AE RR ’'OW
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LL, hurricane—HH AH RR IH KK ’‘AY NN -- reduced to 2-
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stress by a later rule).
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6.3.2 Exceptions to the Main Stress Rule
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A condition has been placed on the Main Stress Rule relating to assignment of
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stress, dependent upon four categories of special suffixes. One category is marked
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to force stress to be placed on either the final or the penultimate syllable of the
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string under consideration. (It should be noted that later rules may change this
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assignment.) This stress placement replaces the Main Stress Rule on the cycle in
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which the special suffix is the rightmost morph. Suffixes in this category include
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IH FF ‘AY (-ify), a0 RR IY(-0ry),and IH FF IH KK (-ific).
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The second category of suffixes does not affect stress; the cycle in which such
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a suffix is rightmost in the domain is skipped. Later cycles, however, do include
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the suffix as part of their domain of application. Examples are: pp aa MM (-dom),
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MM EH NN TT (-ment), and LL EH SS (-less).
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The third category is a combination of the first two: stress is placed on one of
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the vowels in the suffix and all three cyclic rules are skipped for the current
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domain. Examples are: ‘IH RR (-eer), SS ‘EH LL FF (-self), and sg ’IH PP
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(-ship).
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