Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Compound Word Stress

Compound nouns such as ballroom cold cream, greenhouse, may have a primary-secondary stress, that is, a strong stress on the first component and a weak stress on the second component. Thus

bảllroom
bảsketball
bỏy friend
blảckboard
cảll slip
cỏld cream
drủgstore
fỉlled milk
grẻenhorn
grẻenhouse
hỏtdog
hỏusekeeper
jảzz shoes
rảdio mechanic
wrỉst watch
swẻetheart
tảxi driver
tẻlephone operator