Wondering how to accurately represent stress. In IPA, stress, is marked with ˈ◌. But in languages like Spanish (don't know of other languages that use acute accent, other than Ancient Greek), you have película
, which also demonstrates the stress. It seems you might write that in IPA as peˈlicula
. More accurate would be to surround the syllable in some way, such as pe{li}cula
. That's all pretty straight forward, because in Spanish for the most part (from what I can remember) it's usually simple consonant/vowel pairs chained together, as opposed to complex vowel sequences like in English with gaia
for example.
A more complex example of stress that gets me confused is with words like round
. When I pronounce that, I stress at the beginning: "RROUnd". So in IPA it might be like ˈround
. But I would like to get more specific than that and mark off where exactly the stress is occurring, which I can't completely figure out at first. It seems like {rou}nd
I would say.
So that gets me to the question about the acute accent like used in Spanish. If I were to to try to place that on round
, it could be in one of 3 places perhaps.
ŕou
(this seems to be the most accurate)róu
(but this may be more like "err-OOU-nd")roú
(but this would be more like "rou-OO-nd")
Another example is verse
, it is like {ver}se
or /ˈvr.s/
Another example is fantastic
. If it were Spanish you might do fantástic
. But in reality it is like fan-TAS-tic
, the whole syllable is stressed. Wondering if the acute accent in this case is just shorthand for marking the whole syllable as accented.
So the questions are:
- If the acute accent (like in Spanish) can accurately represent stress in all cases.
- If there is a better way of representing stress and how long it lasts over a few sounds/letters.
- What is actually being stressed, in detail, in different complex words. Basically, even though there is the IPA and Spanish way of marking stress, it would be helpful to know about a good resource that goes into more depth on what is actually occurring during stress.
Also would be interested to know any other ways different languages represent stress.