Word Stress Pattern
There were so many theory of word stress pattern. According to Birjandi and Noudoushan (2005:99-100) stress is a term that we apply to words in isolation which have more than one syllable. It refers to the property that certain syllable carry which makes them stand out from the restof the word. It seems certain that stressed syllable are made with more effort than unstressed ones; the muscles in the lungs seems to expel air more aggressively than for unstressed syllable.
The following are the stress patterns as the guide for the predictability of english word stress.
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