Lesson 44: The Definitive Accent System
Lesson 18: Definiteness and the Definitive Accent introduced the basic stress shift. This lesson shows the full system: how it works with nested phrases, dropped openings, opening phrases that carry the accent, and long vowels under stress.
Lesson 18: Definiteness and the Definitive Accent showed three levels of specificity. Here is the system in full.
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