What are the factors that determine stress patterning?

      

What are the factors that determine stress patterning?

  

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Francis
1. The number of syllables in a word:
Stress is not recognized in a monosyllabic word.

2. Morphological Shape of the Word:
Words are either morphologically simple or complex. The more the stress patterning changes, the more complex they become.

3. The word class of a word:
You differentiate two words with the same sound but due to difference in stress patterning they have different word meaning.
francis1897 answered the question on August 23, 2022 at 12:46


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