secondary stress in a sentence
Examples
- Among consonants other than " l ", practice varies for some words, such as where the final syllable has secondary stress or an unreduced vowel.
- Ordinarily, in each such word there will be exactly one syllable with primary stress, possibly one syllable having secondary stress, and the remainder are unstressed.
- Secondary stress occurs when a word contains two or more primary stressed syllables, in which case all but one primary stress is reduced to secondary.
- (Note : in all above examples, primary stress remains on the second word, while secondary stress remains on the first word, independently of tone changes.
- However, in other languages the placement of secondary stress is not predictable, or may not be predictable ( and thus be phonemic ) for some words.
- In addition, amongst sequences of clitics suffixed to a verb, the rightmost clitic may receive secondary stress, e . g . " b�scalo " ('look for it').
- Polysyllabic words can, in addition to the syllable with primary stress, have syllables with secondary stress, unstressed syllables, or a combination of both unstressed and secondarily-stressed syllables.
- The first syllable of the first part of a compound had the strongest stress, with progressively weaker secondary stress for the first syllables of the remaining parts.
- The suffix, as can be expected, has tertiary stress, but the penultimate syllable also has tertiary stress, even though it would be expected to have secondary stress.
- Generally, every alternate syllable before and after the primary stress will receive relative stress, as far secondary stress placements allow : W?. gY . n?. ngYn.