Units of spoken English, such as words, phrases, and sentences have some syllables or words stressed. All multisyllabic English words must have stress on some syllable. The stress given to a syllable in a word is called the word stress or lexical stress. Compound words are composed of multiple words that together mean one idea. Examples of compound words are phrasal verbs, compound nouns and compound adjectives. Compound words are fixed expressions since they always occur together to mean something quite different from their constituent words. Since they have one meaning, compound words work like one word and have their own intrinsic stress patterns. Word stress, including compound word stress, is the foundation for all other types of stress since without this knowledge we cannot stress phrases and sentences correctly. To learn word stress, we first need to know how to count the syllables of English words.
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Syllable counting
The English syllable
Single vowel sound
15 vowel phonemes of American English
Adjacent vowel letters
Semi-vowels
Consonant clusters
Consonant digraphs
Affixes and compounds
Doubled consonants
-es and -ed
Compound words
Consonants between vowels
Long vs short vowels
Syllabic consonants
Stressed syllables
Stress and number of syllables of words
Monosyllabic words
Mispronounced monosyllabic words
Two syllable words
Mispronounced two syllable words
Three syllable words
Words with more than three syllables
Secondary stress
Stress shift
Suffix stress patterns
Stress-neutral suffixes
Stress-shifting suffixes
First syllable before the suffix
Second syllable before the suffix
Stress carrying suffixes
Stress with prefixes
Unstressed prefixes
Stressable prefixes
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