Selfstudy National University of Uzbekistan Faculty of foreign Philology phonetics theme: Stress in compound words/Stress in longer words


Placement of word stress According to its placement in a word,stress can be free,fixed and shifting



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Classification of English Consonants. LECTURE 3

Placement of word stress

According to its placement in a word,stress can be free,fixed and shifting.

  • fixed-the position of the word stress is always the same,it is restricted to a particular syllable.
  • in French (the last syllable)

    in Czesh and Finnish (the first syllable)

  • shifting-the word stress can change its position in different forms of the word.
  • music-musician

  • free-the location of word stress is not confined to a specific position,it can fall on any syllable of the word
  • English,Russian,Italian,Greek,Spanish

Stress in compound words

Some nouns consist of more than just one word. They are called “compound nouns/words”.

Compound nouns can be formed in different ways.

The most common way is to put two nouns together (Noun+noun);

Other common Types are: adjective+noun and verb+noun.

Many compound nouns are written as one word,but some of them are written with hyphens or spaces.

Noun+noun

Compound nouns are made from two nouns put together.

  • For example: tooth+paste=toothpaste
  • The are not always written as one word.

  • For example: night club
  • The word”toothpaste” has two syllables and the stress is on the first syllable(Oo).

    Another examples:

    (Oo):car park,shoe shop;

    (Ooo): sunglasses,traffic lights;

    (Oooo):art gallery,photocopy.

Adjective+noun

  • If the first part of the compound word is an adjective,the stress can be on the second part too. (F.e: double room-OO);
  • If the object in the second part is made out of the material in the first.(F.e: glass bottle-OO; glass jar-OO);
  • If the first part tells us about location of second part.(F.e: bus door-OO;

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