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d.
i. over׳ whelm
ii. over׳ flow
iii. over׳ hear
iv. over׳ night
e.
i. selfab׳ use

ii. selfes׳ teem
iii. selfde׳ fence
iv. self׳ confident
When self and ever are the second element the primary accent is always on
the second element.
a.
i. her׳self
ii. him׳self

iii. my׳self
iv. them׳ selves
b.
i. how׳ ever
ii. what׳ ever
iii. where׳ ever
iv. who׳ ever

Stress and Rhythm in Connected Speech

Connected Speech is an utterance made up of several words. In English con-
nected speech we can find accentual features that are similar to the accentual
features of polysyllabic words said in isolation.

For example,
׳Meet me at ׳ten.
I ׳lost my ׳bunch of ׳keys.
In normal speech, content or lexical words are more likely to receive accent
than the form or structure or grammatical words. Content words are
nouns, adjectives, adverbs, main verbs and demonstrative and interrogative

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