Estrés en palabras simples en inglés

Stress in English Simple Words (Ortiz 2000)

A simple word is one which is made up of a single grammatical unit called

stem.

Word stress and Syllable Patterning

1. Any vowel apart from /, may occur with either a primary or

secondary stress.

2. All long vowels and certain short vowels always make syllables

prominent (inherently prominent)

3. Belong to both systems, such as minimum n/

Stressed

Strong vowels (long)











All diphthongs

Strong vowels

(short)













Weak vowels













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Non-prominent

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 In general, three-syllable words have a strong tendency to bear stress

on the antepenultimate syllable.

Word stress and suffixation

1. Suffixes not affecting stem stress:

able, ible

ful

less

ly

ment

ness

2. suffixes attracting stress

ee

ese

ette

3. suffixes rejecting stress

icion

ity

Word Stress and Grammatical Category

Important!

Nouns and adjectives take stress on the first syllable

Verbs take stress on the second syllable.

Summarizing

 Every word has only one primary stress

 Secondary stresses (normally one, less frequently two) always precede

primary stresses in words.

 A three-syllable word with a primary stress on the last syllable has a

secondary stress on the antepenultimate syllable.

 In a few cases where the primary stress is on the penultimate syllable,

the secondary may occur on the previous syllable.

 A four-syllable word with a primary stress on the penultimate syllable

has a secondary stress on the first syllable.

 Five and six-syllable words with the primary stress on the fourth

syllable from the left take secondary stress either on the first syllable

or on the second.

 English derivates

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