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How can we represent a stressed monosyllabic word?
"word stress" is not the relevant kind of stress here. When wiktionary says:
a particle showing agreement. In this meaning, 是 is stressed. truly; indeed.
... it almost surely means "...
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How can we represent a stressed monosyllabic word?
A more general question is, how can we represent stress? One approach is to treat sounds as atomic units (e.g. [a, ɪ, m, ʃ] not being made up of anything else. In that theory, "stress" can ...
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Swahili stress with two vowels in a row, how does it work?
In words that are stressed regularly, the stress will be on the second last orthographic vowel or on a syllabic nasal if it is the second last syllable. (Unless the morpheme is only two syllables, as ...
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