acrimonious, vitriolic, overwhelming, perspicacious
Some examples of words with primary stress on the third syllable include "university," "electricity," and "municipality."
OR-ga-nize. You probably recognize that the first and third syllables get some degree of stress. The primary stress is on the first syllable, and there is often a secondary stress on the third syllable.
Some examples of words with secondary stress include "environment," "opportunity," "management," and "assistance." These words have stress on the second syllable after the primary stress.
"Revolutionize," "university," "independence" are some examples of words with stress on the third syllable.
Some examples of words with stress on the last syllable are: "police," "debate," "survive," and "beyond."
Some examples of words with stress on the first syllable are "happy," "banana," "elephant," "family," and "guitar."
OR-ga-nize. You probably recognize that the first and third syllables get some degree of stress. The primary stress is on the first syllable, and there is often a secondary stress on the third syllable.
The stressed syllable is the syllable that is emphasized when it is spoken. Some words have more than one stressed syllable, so the primary stress is the most emphasized syllable, the secondary stress is the second most emphasized, and the tertiary stress is the third most emphasized.
Some examples of words with secondary stress include "environment," "opportunity," "management," and "assistance." These words have stress on the second syllable after the primary stress.
"Revolutionize," "university," "independence" are some examples of words with stress on the third syllable.
A common definition of "stress" in phonetics and linguistics is "the prominence that a syllable has by virtue of its being spoken with more energy than the syllables around it." Thus, in the word above, the first syllable (uh) is less prominent, less energetic, than is the second syllable, "bove." For that reason, we usually say that the word above is stressed on the second syllable. Notice that "stress" is a relative term, not an absolute one; that is, whether the word above is spoken softly or vigorously, the second syllable, no matter how weak it may be, is the more prominent of the two and is, therefore, the "stressed" syllable. Students of language agree that there are at least three levels of stress in English -- three levels of prominence that a syllable can have against its surroundings. Those levels are often called, primary (the most prominent), secondary (the second most prominent), and tertiary -- or "weak" (the least prominent). Some experts think that four levels can be identified in English, but that is a different problem. Here are two words that illustrate primary, secondary, and tertiary stress: --necessarily--partnership In necessarily (nec-ess-ar-i-ly), primary stress is on the "ar" syllable; secondary stress is on the "nec" syllable, and tertiary stress is on the others. In partnership (part-ner-ship), primary stress is on the "part" syllable, secondary stress is on the "ship" syllable, and tertiary stress is on the "ner" syllable. The rules of stress apply to any syllables, whether they are part of a word or part of a longer unit of speech. Thus, we can examine the stress levels in the phrase, "plenty of potatoes" just as we can examine the stress levels in the single word, "plenipotentiary." A final note: If an utterance has only one syllable, then that syllable, no matter how faintly it may be spoken, has primary stress, because it is the most prominent in its context. If an utterance has only two syllables, then they may be given equal stress (either in so-called "spondee" words such as railroad and cowboy or in some expressions such as good luck and good bye) or they may have unequal stress, resulting in primary and secondary stress. Only when we have three or more syllables in a word or a phrase can we find tertiary stress.
Some examples of words with stress on the last syllable are: "police," "debate," "survive," and "beyond."
Some examples of words with stress on the first syllable are "happy," "banana," "elephant," "family," and "guitar."
The stress is on the first syllable: PROB (rhymes with bob or sob) ah-blee. Some people pronounce this word very quickly, so that it sounds like "PROB'lee," but the stress is always on the first syllable.
I think it would be on the second syllable. However, it is possible that in some dialects, the first syllable would be acceptable, and people may put stress on the first syllable for emphasis.
Second syllable stress refers to a pattern of word stress where the second syllable in a word is emphasized more than the first or subsequent syllables. This type of stress pattern is common in some languages, such as Spanish, where words like "banana" (ba-NA-na) or "tomato" (to-MA-te) have stress on the second syllable.
art, ball, cat, dog, fed,
The first syllable of "photo" is stressed and the second syllable is unstressed. The lack of stress on the second syllable has the consequence that the "t" fails to be aspirated and in American English is pronounced as a flap. You can contrast this with the word "Plato", which has some low level stress on the second syllable, causing the "t" to be aspirated and preventing it from becoming a flap.