Thank you very much for this great opportunity to learn from you!
This is probably a beginner's question, but I'll ask it anyway: how does one determine that a syllable is stressed or unstressed? I've read an article on Timothy Steele's website which talks about demotion and promotion of stressed and unstressed syllables. I gather that some syllables are naturally stressed and others are naturally unstressed but depending on their context with a foot, they can be promoted from unstressed to stressed or demoted from stressed to unstressed (is this brief interpretation correct?). But how do I know whether a syllable is stressed or unstressed in the first place? Is there a rule of thumb for this?
- Fugwozzle
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