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Table 9.1 (Continued)
Pattern Stressed Syllable Examples
9. Words ending in –aire, u׳ nique
–eer, –ental, –entail, –esce, gro׳ tesque
–escence, –esque, –ique, –it is, funda׳ mental
–ean, –een , –eum, –ee, –ental ca׳ reer
euro׳ pean
mu׳ seum
can׳ teen
employ׳ ee
10. Words ending in –cracy, accented on the syllable de׳ mocracy
–gamy, –graphy, –gyny, –logy, preceding this ending mo nogamy
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–metry, –nomy, –phony, bi׳ ography
–scopy and –sophy e׳ conomy
11a. Disyllabic verbs ending in accented on the second syllable bap׳ tize
–ize or –ise. An important cap׳ size
exception being ‘realize’
11 b. Verbs consisting of 3 or accented on the third syllable ׳ agonize
4 syllables and ending in –ize from the end ׳ criticize
or –ise. a׳ natomize
ac׳ climatize
׳ characterize

Shift in Stress
Sometimes variations in word accent in English are associated with the
morphological structure of words, i.e., the way words are formed from their
stems, prefixes and suffixes. Accent shifts from the first syllable to the second,
third, or the fourth syllable as longer words are derived from smaller words.
Given below are examples of derivations (with a common stem) in which we
find a shift in accent.

i. ‘democrat de׳ mocracy demo׳ cratic
ii. ׳ photograph pho׳ tographer photo׳ graphic
iii. ׳ politics po׳ litical poli׳ tician
iv. a׳ cademy aca׳ demic acade׳ mician
v. indi׳ vidual individu׳ ality individua׳ listic

Distinctive Word Accentual Patterns

The accentual pattern of a word establishes the contrastive relationship of
its parts; it may also have a distinctive function in that it opposes words of

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