 101  two opposing tendencies. One is the impulse to place the stress on the first syllable; the other is the influence of antepenultimate stress which is so prevalent in three-syllable words. Broadly speaking, it has been traditional in RP to favour stress on the first syllable, so that the shift to the second syllable has been strongly resisted in: applicable demonstrable intricacy aristocrat formidable kilometre capitalist hospitable lamentable controversy illustrative remediless contumacy In many words the two tendencies can be reconciled by the elision of one of the two middle unstressed syllables: adversary necessary promissory comparable participle referable migratory preferable voluntary momentary primarily However, many words traditionally stressed on the first syllable have been, or are being, adapted to the antepenultimate stress pattern, e.g. centenary hegemony nomenclature despicable metallurgy pejorative disputable miscellany peremptory explicable Because antepenultimate stress has been accepted in most of these words, it is difficult to reject it in the words in the first list simply on the ground of tradition. Analogy is the obvious argument in 101 |
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