المرجع الالكتروني للمعلوماتية
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Stress in Compounds  
  
25   09:16 صباحاً   date: 2025-03-15
Author : Mehmet Yavas̡
Book or Source : Applied English Phonology
Page and Part : P168-C7


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Stress in Compounds

A compound is composed of more than one root morpheme (mostly two free morphemes) but functions like a single word in syntactic and semantic terms. The practice in the written language is not consistent; a compound can be written as a single word (e.g. blueprint), or with a hyphen in between (e.g. fail-safe), or with a space between the elements (e.g. flower girl). Although there are no consistent rules of choice among these, there seems to be a tendency for the ones with a primary stress on the first element to be written as one word or with a hyphen in between, and the ones that receive the main stress on the second element to be written with a space in between.