{"id":3327,"date":"2011-09-26T14:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T13:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3327"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:26:03","slug":"stress-shift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3327","title":{"rendered":":Stress shift:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tendency in some languages, including English, to avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1542\">stress <\/a>on adjacent <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1066\">syllables <\/a>(called a <strong>stress clash<\/strong>) by moving one stress (usually the first) to another syllable. A simple example is the phrase <em>thirteen men<\/em> which is usually pronounced  <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8\u03b8\u025c\u02d0ti\u02d0n \u02c8men<\/strong><\/span> rather than <\/strong> <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u03b8\u025c\u02d0\u02c8ti\u02d0n \u02c8men<\/strong><\/span>, where the primary lexical stresses of the two words fall on adjacent syllables.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Also called <strong>iambic reversal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tendency in some languages, including English, to avoid stress on adjacent syllables (called a stress clash) by moving one stress (usually the first) to another syllable. A simple example is the phrase thirteen men which is usually pronounced \u02c8\u03b8\u025c\u02d0ti\u02d0n &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3327\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":215,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5258,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3327\/revisions\/5258"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}