What is the evidence for preantepenultimate stress?

1. What are examples of penultimate stress words?
2. What is the rule of the Penult?
3. What is the penultimate stress rule in Latin?
4. What are examples of stressed vowels?

What are examples of penultimate stress words?

Words ending in 'ic', 'tion' or 'sion' always place their stress on the penultimate (second to last) syllable. (e.g. supersonic, Atlantic, dedication, attention, transformation, comprehension).

What is the rule of the Penult?

Basic rules

In Latin, the stress on a word is placed on only one of two syllables: the one before the last syllable (the penultimate syllable, or penult), or the one before that (the antepenultimate syllable, or antepenult).

What is the penultimate stress rule in Latin?

The basic rule of word stress in Latin was that words were normally stressed on the penultimate syllable unless that syllable was short (i.e. open with a short vowel as its nucleus), in which case the stress fell on the antepenultimate syllable.

What are examples of stressed vowels?

Monosyllabic words are words with only one syllable, which are usually stressed. Words like 'go' and 'sit' have a stressed vowel. A word like 'come' is also considered a monosyllabic word, where the core vowel of the syllable is the 'o'.