31. Primary stress occurs on every long vowel or diphthong that is in the next-to-last syllable of a word.32. All heavy syllables take at least secondary stress, and possibly primary stress depending on their position within the word. 33. Syllables having primary stress are in boldface; syllables having secondary stress are in roman type; unstressed syllables are in italics. 34. Placing a light syllable suffix "-ta " " with " after a four syllable root shows shifting of primary stress : 35. In general, though, the strong syllable in the third foot from the end of a word receives the primary stress . 36. According to, secondary stress falls on the second syllable following the primary stress and iteratively thereafter on every second syllable. 37. This was meant to reflect the stress-timing where the major syllable always has primary stress , resulting in a perceived lengthened vowel. 38. Some compounds, however, have primary stress on both the first and the second member, e . g . ('a terrible lie'). 39. In most words the primary stress falls on the penultimate vowel and secondary stresses fall on every second syllable preceding that. 40. :: : : : Note incidentally that the verb and adjective are still pronounced differently, although with the same primary stress .
