Timeline for Irregular penultimate stress in English words from classical sources
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| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:50 | comment | added | Greg Lee | I don't know anything about the history end of this. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:46 | comment | added | Greg Lee | Both "tycoon" and "haiku" are stressed on the last syllable and also the first syllable, but "haiku" has the regular retraction of primary stress to the preceding stress when the primary stress would fall on the last syllable. There are many words like this with final secondary stress. "Tycoon" is the exception, and there are quite a few words like this which are spelled with "oo" and retain final stress -- "festoon", "cartoon", ... | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:39 | comment | added | brass tacks | I'm especially interested in the historical aspect: when did these forms get established? I'm also interested in knowing if there are any factors that help predict the stress pattern with which these words will be borrowed. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:36 | comment | added | brass tacks | I don't care only about the spelling, but I imagine the spelling has a large influence on how speakers pronounce words like this. In terms of lax-tense vowels, what would be the relevant difference between "tycoon" (always stressed on the last syllable) and "haiku" (often stressed on the first)? | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:29 | history | answered | Greg Lee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |