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Example Question: Can the same word have two different stress patterns?

By Minoo, October 31, 2017 in Pronunciation

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Posted October 31, 2017

(Module 1 – Word & Sentence Stress)

Can the same word have two different stress patterns?

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Posted October 31, 2017

Yes, sometimes, there are two ways of saying exactly the same word; e.g. ‘advertisement’.

Other times, the stress pattern changes when the function of the word changes:
verb: to reCOrd
noun: a REcord

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