The tendency is toward putting dominant stress at the end.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

Is Bill's broken a chair, dominant stress will usually be on the complement a chair.

but dominant stress will be assigned to broken only in rather exceptional versions of the sentence.

In I know one thing dominant stress will usually be on the complement one thing ; ;

In small-town people are very friendly dominant stress will generally be on the complement very friendly ; ;

Adverbial second complements, however, are likely not to have dominant stress when they terminate sentences.

Is George put the cat out, dominant stress will ordinarily be on the first complement, the cat, not the second complement out.

Final adjuncts may or may not have dominant stress.

Is George reads the news emotionally, dominant stress may or may not be on the adjunct emotionally.

They are likely to lose dominant stress.

Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.

In I'll go with George dominant stress is probably on George ; ;

but if George has just been mentioned prominently ( and the trip to be made has been under discussion ), what is said is probably I'll go with him, and dominant stress is probably on the preposition with.

the personal pronoun has dominant stress because `` he '' has not been mentioned previously.

If both George and a piece of information George does not have are prominent in the context, but the idea of telling George is new, then dominant stress will probably be on tell in why not tell George??

In there aren't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people: the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious.

If women replaced people, it would normally have dominant stress.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

If work is substituted for things ( with more exact contribution to meaning ), it will have dominant stress.

Thus in it's incredible what that boy can eat dominant stress is likely to be on incredible, and eat will have strong stress also.

In she has it in for George dominant stress will ordinarily be on in, where the notion of stored-up antipathy seems to center.

Dominant males will also mate opportunistically with the females of less dominant neighboring aardwolves.

If the first allele is dominant to the second, then the fraction of the population that will show the dominant phenotype is p < sup > 2 </ sup > + 2pq, and the fraction with the recessive phenotype is q < sup > 2 </ sup >.

When courting, dominant males will keep subordinate ones at bay.

For example, in peas the allele for green pods, G, is dominant to that for yellow pods, g. Thus pea plants with the pair of alleles either GG ( homozygote ) or Gg ( heterozygote ) will have green pods.

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If for example the industry is large enough to support one company of minimum efficient scale then other companies entering the industry will operate at a size that is less than MES, meaning that these companies cannot produce at an average cost that is competitive with the dominant company.

In general, it appears that trustees and board members attempt to represent the public interest in their administration of educational policy, and this is made easier by the fact that the dominant values of the society are middle-class values, which are generally thought to be valid for the entire society.

EtherTalk in particular gradually became the dominant implementation method for AppleTalk as Ethernet became generally popular in the PC industry throughout the 1990s.

) One episode depicted him as having voices in his head, which told him to engage in destructive activities ; however, generally he has a passive demeanor in contrast to Butt-Head's more dominant personality.

In the end, tube based CPUs became dominant because the significant speed advantages afforded generally outweighed the reliability problems.

Among males, there is generally a dominance hierarchy and males are dominant over females.

In reality, this definition is generally used where only two firms have dominant control over a market.

The later history of Kent shows clear evidence of a system of joint kingship, with the kingdom being divided into east Kent and west Kent, although it appears that there generally was a dominant king.

It may be that Æthelberht was king of east Kent and Eadbald became king of west Kent ; the east Kent king seems generally to have been the dominant ruler later in Kentish history.

Only dominant males are generally able to mate.

Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.

Phalanxes remained dominant on battlefields throughout the Hellenistic period, although wars had developed into more protracted operations generally involving sieges and naval combat as much as field battles, until they were finally displaced by the Roman legions.

In limestone, Merlot tends to develop more perfume notes while in sandy soils the wines are generally softer than Merlot grown in clay dominant soils.

Since the early 1970s, however, the dominant scholarship has noted dissimilarities between Persian Mithra-worship and the Roman Mithraic mysteries, and the mysteries of Mithras are now generally seen as a distinct product of the Roman Imperial religious world.

I think all the grand leading facts of geographical distribution are explicable on the theory of migration ( generally of the more dominant forms of life ), together with subsequent modification and the multiplication of new forms.

In the Western media, Li is generally viewed as " widely hated " for his dominant role in endorsing the bloody crackdown on dissidents following the Tiananmen protests.

Juvenile HD differs from these symptoms in that it generally progresses faster and chorea is exhibited briefly, if at all, with rigidity being the dominant symptom.

Because of the generally low status of the Creole peoples in the eyes of prior European colonial powers, creole languages have generally been regarded as " degenerate " languages, or at best as rudimentary " dialects " of the politically dominant parent languages.

Furthermore, it is generally agreed upon that the founding of the dominant Chinese race, the Han 漢 race, was the result of the " Yellow Emperor " Huangdi 黃帝, who unified a federation of tribes to drive the other tribes out of central China as it was known then ( today's northwestern China ), and several imperial dynasties existed since the time of Huang Di and before the time of Ying Zheng, the last of which integral dynasties, the Zhou 周 dynasty, disintegrated and formed the " Warring Nations " which were principalities of various sizes roughly based on the feudal kingdoms and duchies as ascribed under the Zhou dynasty political system.

A bluegrass bass line is generally a rhythmic alternation between the tonic and dominant of each chord, with occasional walking bass excursions.

Folds and thrusts north of the Periadriatic seam are generally directed to the north, the dominant vergence ( direction of fold asymmetry ) in these units is to the north.

The BBC has generally been dominant in television comedy, but the commercial stations have also had some successes.

Although Catholicism is generally seen as the dominant religion, some believe that many natives practice a syncretic blend of Christian and indigenous beliefs.