http://www.englishforums.com/English/EnglishAudioSpeechPronunciation/Forum22.htmBritish, American, Scottish accent or using super-fantastic-high-tech software, we'll help you with pronunciation.enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/vqmmg/post.htm#417023Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:22:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:417023CalifJim0http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/vqmmg/post.htm#417023http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-417023.xmlThere are groups of words that follow similar patterns, but there is no general rule for knowing the stress pattern or the qualities of the vowels of any given word of English. Final -Vr, -Vl, -le, -Vn, -Vnt, -y, -less, -ful, -ness (where V is any vowel) are usually unstressed. sail or, fav or, bot tle, sat in, tang ent, ci ty, care less, care ful, firm ness, ... Latinate verbs are usually composed of prefix and root, and stressed on the root. de ceive , pro mote , per mit , con cern , de cide , ... Nouns in -ity are stressed on the syllable preceding the -ity ending: elec tri city, ca pac ity, in san ity, pro fan ity, in fin ity, hi lar ity, soli dar ity, ... Endings in -oon and -een are stressed: bass oon , plat oon ,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/vqmmg/post.htm#416447Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:22:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:416447Kooyeen1http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/vqmmg/post.htm#416447http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-416447.xmlLinguaphile wrote: Is there a reason for this or is it arbitrary? Hi, I'm afraid you need to learn how to pronounce words by heart. There are no rules, even though once you are used to English pronunciation, you can sometimes "guess" how a word is pronounced or where the stress is. However, you can never be sure, you always need to look up new words in a dictionary...http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/vqmmg/post.htmTue, 27 Jan 2009 07:22:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:416370Linguaphile2http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/vqmmg/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-416370.xmlHi, Some English words comprise only unstressed syllables. In some words of this kind, the stress is on the first syllable while in some others it is on the second syllable. Is there a reason for this or is it arbitrary? 1. The stress is on the first syllable: examples: be ing, bil lion, bi shop, bi tter, bril liant, Bri tain, buil ding, busi ness, bu sy, cei ling, ce real, chi cken, chil dren, chim ney, Christ mas, ci nema, ci tizen, c ivil, ci ty, cli nic, cri minal, cri tic, cri tical, ci nical 2. The stress is on the second syllable: örnekler: ca re er, ca thed ral, cer ti ficate, com mi ttee, con di tion, de feat , de gree , de li very, des crip tion, di sease , dis tinct , di vi sion, e di tion, e quip ment, e qui...