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Letter-to-sound and lexical stress
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The last category replaces the Main Stress Rule with the following when the
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suffix is IH KX (-ic): assign 1-stress to the vowel in the first syllable in the word.
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6.3.3 Stressed Syllable Rule (cyclic)
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1.V — [1-stress] /
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hort | ~1 1-str
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X—CO{ K ]CO/V}VCO[ siess |y
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where Y contains no 1-stress and X must contain all prefixes.
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a. Assign 1-stress to the vowel in a syllable preceding a weak
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syllable followed by a syllable which is followed by the
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rightmost primary-stressed vowel (e.g. oxygenate—’AA KK
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SS IH JJ EH NN 'EY TT (stressed on first syllable) -- the
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stress on the final syllable is later reduced).
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b. Assign 1-stress to the vowel in a syllable preceding a vowel
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which is followed by a syllable followed, in turn, by the
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rightmost primary-stressed vowel (e.g. stereobate —»ss TT
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'EH RR IY OW BB ‘EY TT (stressed on first syllable) -- the
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stress on the final syllable is later reduced).
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2.V = [1-stress] / X— CoVCo| 1555 |y
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where Y contains no 1-stress and X must contain all prefixes.
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a. Assign 1-stress to the vowel two syllables to the left of the
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rightmost primary-stressed vowel (e.g. propaganda— PP RR
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'AA PP AE GG 'AE NN DD AE (stressed on first syllable) --
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the stress on this leftmost vowel is later properly reduced).
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3.V [Lstress] /¥— Co L-sgress |y
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where Y contains no 1-stress and X must contain all prefixes.
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a. Assign 1-stress to the vowel one syllable to the left of the
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rightmost primary-stressed vowel (e.g. hormone > HH ‘A0
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RR MM ’'OW NN -- the stress on the final vowel is later
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reduced).
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6.3.4 Alternating Stress Rule (cyclic)
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1.V — [1-stress] / X— CoVVCo| L-stress ] ¢,
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