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Kilimanjaro Posted 19 years ago
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stress on exclamatory words

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00In my language (Turkish) usually the stress is on wovel sounds when an exclamation is let out and we most often stretch out the wovel part of the word. . I'm not sure if this holds true for every agglutinated language. What's the rule governing exclamatory stress and stretching in words in the English Language.0-
  

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0 In English the stress is usually on the first syllable but unfortunately there is no indicator when this is not the case.0-
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0 YEs, in English we would have stressed those words where you showed. 0-
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0"Vowel," please -- not "wovel"! 050010id1
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and I am Azerbaijani turk, in our language stress also falls on vowels, but in English i think on it falls on consonants, specially nasal sounds.. if youhave idea lets share it i'm waiting for your replies, see you
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Anonymousin English i think on it falls on consonants,
No. I don't know what makes you feel that way, but I think that almost all of us English speakers would say that the stress in English falls on vowels. Do you have a specific example?

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