Word Stress

[Anonymous]

Hi
Are there any rules relating to which syllable must be stressed in words, I can't seem to find this topic in my books

[blacknomi]

I don't think so. And they borrow a lot of words from other languages, so 'stress' can jump among any syllables as it wishes. :)

I can think of some examples, the stress changes the part of speech of a word.

Noun
'record
'present
'refund


Verb
re'cord
pre'sent
re'fund

[milky]

Hi
Are there any rules relating to which syllable must be stressed in words, I can't seem to find this topic in my books

Here's a few links:

http://grove.ufl.edu/~klilj/pron/ws/

http://www.geocities.com/ccsnstudent...e2.html#stress