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| You use moving stress with some nationalities (ending in ese) and also with numbers (_teen, twenty-two) Examples: He's a Portugese writer. We have fourteen children. Am I right? _________________ . _________________ What about these examples? Do they have moving stress? They are European capital cities. It's an afternoon party. It's a seventeenth century house. |
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| Yes, there is also stress shift in your examples: They are European capital cities. It's an afternoon party. It's a seventeenth century house. The primary stress falls on the first syllable of these words because they are used attributively. This change occurs in double stressed words (i.e. they have a primary and a secondary stress) |
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