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Hathaway, B. A.

"1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading"


5. _How many kinds of accent?_
Common, Emphatic, and Discriminating.
6. _What is common accent?_
Ordinary accent of spelling.
7. _How many kinds of common accent?_
Two.
8. _What are they?_
Primary and secondary.
9. _What is primary accent?_
The principal accent.
10. _What is secondary accent?_
The partial accent.
11. _What kind of accent is essential to every word of more than
one syllable?_
Primary.
12. _How close can primary and secondary accent come together?_
Not closer than two syllables.
13. _How many primary accents can one word have?_
Only one.
14. _How many secondary accents can a word have?_
Two.
15. _In case of two secondary accents, where are they placed?_
On the first and third.
16. _In case of two secondary, where is the primary accent?_
On the last but two.
17. _Do the primary and secondary ever change places?_
They do.
18. _In words of two syllables, where is the accent?_
Usually on the first.
19. _In trisyllables, what syllable is accented?_
Usually the first.


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