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NEIGHbor, NEIGHborhood, NEIGHborliness: no matter what suffix we add, the emphasis stays on the first syllable. This is bound stress. PHOtograph, phoTOGraphy, photoGRAPHic: the emphasis changes from syllable to syllable without any good reason. This is free stress.
Recommended Citation
Brooke, Maxey
(1981)
"Can Stress Induce Homography?,"
Word Ways: Vol. 14
:
Iss.
4
, Article 17.
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