Matakuliah : G0332/English Phonology
Tahun
: 2007
Complex Word Stress
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Two types of complex Words
• Words made from a basic word (or stem) with the
addition of an affix (eg. Personality)
• Compound words which are made of two or more
independent words (eg. Armchair)
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Effects on word stress
• The affix itself receives the primary stress ; ex. Semi +
‘circle  ‘semicircle
• The word is stressed just as if the affix is not there; ex.
‘pleasant  un’pleasant; ‘market  ‘marketing.
• The stress remains on the stem, not the affix, but is
shifted to a different syllable ; ex. : ‘magnet  mag’netic.
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Stem + Affix
Suffixes which carry primary stress:
– ain : enter’tain, ascer’tain
– ee: refu’gee, evacu’ee
– eer: mountai’neer, volun’teer
– ese: portu’guese, journa’lese
– ette: ciga’rette, laun’drette
– esque: picture’resque, u’nique
Bina Nusantara
Stem + Affix
• Suffixes which do not affect stress placement:
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able: ‘comfort, ‘comfortable
age: ‘anchor,’anchorage
en: ‘wide,’widen
ful: ‘wonder, ‘wonderful
ing:’amaze,’amazing
ish: ‘devil, ‘devilish
like: ‘bird,’birdlike
less: ‘power, ‘powerless
Stem + Affix
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ly: ‘hurried, ‘hurriedly
ment: ‘punish, ‘punishment
ness: ‘yellow, ‘yellowness
ous: ‘glory, ‘glorious
fy: ‘glory, ‘glorify
wise: ‘other, ‘otherwise
y: ‘fun, ‘funny
Stem + Affix
• Suffix which influence stress in the stem
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eous: ‘advantage, advan’tageous
graphy: ‘photo, pho’tography
ial: ‘proverb, pro’verbial
ic: ‘climate, cli’matic
ion: ‘perfect, per’fection
ious: ‘injure, in’jurious
ty: ‘tranquil, tran’quility
ive: ‘reflex, re’flexive
Compound Words
• A compound word can have stress on the first element
such as: ‘blackboard, ‘hotbed, ‘blueberry, ‘mailman,
‘shortcake.
• But modifier + noun may have the stress on the second
element such as: Hot ‘house, dark ‘room, black ‘bird,
tender ‘foot, handy ‘man.
• Compound with the first element in number have final
stress such as : three ‘wheeler, second ‘class, five
‘finger.
• Compound functioning as adverb are final stressed such
as: head ’first, north ‘east, down ‘stream.
Bina Nusantara
Compound Words
• Compound with adjectival first element and –ed
morpheme at the end have this pattern, such as: bad –
’tempered ; half – ‘timbered; heavy –’handed.
• Compounds which function as verbs and have and
adverbial first element have final stress, such as: down
‘grade, back ‘pedal, ill ‘treat.
Bina Nusantara
Shifting/ Variable Stress
• Many words in English have shifting stress : the position
of stress may shift with a change of context.
• In isolation, before a pause, or before a weak syllable,
these words have a primary stress on the last syllable.
• When the primary stress in such a word occurs directly
before another syllable with primary stress, the primary
stress can be shifted to the front of the compound word
or demoted to the second word.
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Grammatical stress pattern
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The placement of stress mark will determine the
meaning of the compound noun.
Compound noun pattern : ´` : blackboard, hotbed
Modifier + noun pattern : `´ : hot house, dark room
´high `chair : special chair for infant
`high ´chair: chair that is high
Verb + object pattern : `´ : baking apples, racing horses
Verb + adverbial pattern : `´ : cutting up, handed out.
But the nouns derived from this pattern has the pattern
´` : cutup, handouts.
Bina Nusantara
Word Class Pair
Different word class will have different stress placement
• ‘abstract (A) ; ab’stract (V)
• ‘conduct (N); con’duct (V)
• ‘desert (N); de’sert (V)
• ‘export (N), ex’port (V)
• ‘object (N), ob’ject (V)
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