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Stress pattern in "Little Red Riding Hood"
In "running water" and your other examples, the first word is an adjective. By contrast, in "riding hood", "riding" is an adjunct specifying the kind of hood. Such ...
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Excuse: verb /ɪkˈskjuːz/ vs noun /ɪkˈskjuːs/ - Does this follow a pattern?
It is part of a pattern. Like the change-of-stress pattern for nouns and verbs, the pattern of voiced /z/ at the end of a verb and voiceless /s/ at the end of a noun isn't a consistent rule. It's just ...
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Excuse: verb /ɪkˈskjuːz/ vs noun /ɪkˈskjuːs/ - Does this follow a pattern?
The word close is also a noun, which can be pronounced both ways, depending on its meaning. From Cambridge Dictionary, we have
a road, usually with private houses, that vehicles can only enter from ...
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Stress pattern in "Little Red Riding Hood"
The basic rule for compound nouns is that the first element takes stress and the second doesn't (and it doesn't matter whether the compound noun is written as one word or two). Consider:
'stepping ...
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Stress pattern in "Little Red Riding Hood"
Running water is water that runs; talking heads are heads that talk; a falling star is a star that falls. But a riding hood is not a hood that rides; it is a hood for riding.
Suppose you are a runner, ...
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Is there a term for when in Indian English stress is placed on the word "the" before a noun?
I am a German native speaker and I am observing the same in a business context. I thought that it might be ascribed merely to a local accent, but I have also observed it in videos on YouTube.
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