The secondary stress is the degree of stress weaker than a primary accent placed on a syllable in the pronunciation of a word. Its identification is important in three types of word: long words which have any number of syllables before the primary stress, a number of homographs, and compound words. The IPA symbol for secondary stress is a stress mark at the foot of the following syllable. A syllable (Ancient Greek: ) is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. ... Pronunciation refers to: the way a word or a language is usually spoken; the manner in which someone utters a word. ... Stress has different meanings in different fields: Look up stress in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Homonyms (in Greek homoios = identical and onoma = name) are words which have the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning. ... A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together. ... IPA may refer to: The International Phonetic Alphabet or India Pale Ale ...
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