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How to pronounce word stress in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms word accent
Type of accent, emphasis, stress

Examples of word stress

word stress
The main rule is that the word before the verb has the stress without exception.
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Primary stress occurs on either the last or the next-to-last syllable of a word.
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Primary word stress then goes to the penultimate mora of the phonological word.
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Lexical stress, or word stress, is the stress placed on a given syllable in a word.
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The stress placed on syllables within words is called word stress or lexical stress.
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Primary word stress, with a few exceptions, is on the first syllable.
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Word stress is not phonemically contrastive in Standard Arabic.
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In recent analyses of the speech of remaining speakers, word stress was felt to be nondistinctive.
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Swedish is characterised by a strong word stress and phraseprosody that differs from that of English.
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