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    1. A complex word is composed of more than one grammatical unit, such as a prefix or suffix added to a word stem. 2. There are three main types of complex words: words with affixes, compound words made of two or more words, and words whose stress is shifted within the word. 3. Affixes like prefixes and suffixes can affect word stress in different ways depending on the affix. Some affixes receive primary stress while others do not change the stress of the stem.

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    1. A complex word is composed of more than one grammatical unit, such as a prefix or suffix added to a word stem. 2. There are three main types of complex words: words with affixes, compound words made of two or more words, and words whose stress is shifted within the word. 3. Affixes like prefixes and suffixes can affect word stress in different ways depending on the affix. Some affixes receive primary stress while others do not change the stress of the stem.

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    1. A complex word is composed of more than one grammatical unit, such as a prefix or suffix added to a word stem. 2. There are three main types of complex words: words with affixes, compound words made of two or more words, and words whose stress is shifted within the word. 3. Affixes like prefixes and suffixes can affect word stress in different ways depending on the affix. Some affixes receive primary stress while others do not change the stress of the stem.

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    •SOFÍA ACEVEDO

    COMPLEX •KEVIN AGUIRRE


    WORDS •RONALD GÓMEZ
    STRESS
    WHAT IS A
    COMPLEX
    • A complex word, is a word composed by
    WORD? more than one grammatical unit.
    For example:
    Flexible /fleks/ /ˈflek·sɪ·bl/
    Importantly /ɪmˈpɔː·tənt/  /ɪmˈpɔː·tənt·li/
    • 1. words made from a basic word form (which we
    will call the stem), with the addition of an
    affix(suffix or prefix).

    TYPES OF For example:


    Mis+understand= Misunderstand.
    COMPLEX /ˌmɪs.ʌn.dəˈstænd/

    WORDS Mis is a prefix and understand is the stem.


    Care+less= Careless.
    /ˈkeə.ləs/

    Less is a suffix, and care is the stem.


    • 2. Then we have compound words, which are
    made of two (or occasionally more) independent
    English words (e.g. ‘ice cream’, ‘armchair’).
    3. The stress remains
    1. The affix itself
    ‘marketing’ - on the steam, not the
    receives the primary
    /ˈmɑː.kɪ.tɪŋ/ affix, but is shifted to
    stress:
    another syllable:

    Semicircle /ˈsem.i
    ˌsɜː.kəl/
    “market” - /ˈmɑː.kɪt/ “Magnet” – /ˈmæɡ.nət/
    AFFIXES
    Circle /ˈsɜː·kl/
    EFFECTS ON
    WORD STRESS
    Personality /ˌpɜː.sən
    ˈæl.ə.ti/ ‘unpleasant’ - /ʌn “Magnetic” - /mæɡ
    ˈplez.ənt/ ˈnet.ɪk/
    Personal/ˈpɜː·sən·əl/

    2. The word is stressed


    as if the affix were not ‘pleasant’ -/ˈplez.ənt/
    there:
    SUFFIXES

    Suffixes that do not affect stress


    Suffixes carrying primary stress Suffixes that influence stress in
    placement.
    themselves. the stem.
    Comfortable -
    Refugee - /ˌref.juˈdʒiː/ Photography - /fəˈtɒɡ.rə.fi/
    /ˈkʌm.fə.tə.bəl/
    Volunteer - /ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪər/ Climatic - /klaɪˈmæt.ɪk/
    Anchorage - /ˈæŋ.kər.ɪdʒ/
    Cigarette - /ˌsɪɡ.ərˈet/ Perfection - /pəˈfek.ʃən/
    Powerless - /ˈpaʊə.ləs/
    Picturesque - /ˌpɪk.tʃərˈesk/ Reflexive - /rɪˈflek.sɪv/
    Glorify - /ˈɡlɔː.rɪ.faɪ/
    PREFIXES

    • The effect on stress does not have the comparative regularity, independence and predictability of
    suffixes, and there is no prefix of one or two syllables that always carries primary stress.

    • The stress in words with prefixes is governed by the same rules as those for polysyllabic words
    without prefixes.

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