Millionaire/ stress pattern

Millionaire/ stress pattern
Message from asafie posted on 02-10-2017 at 21:03:11 (D | E | F)
Hi everyone !
Could anybody please tell me why does millionaire have has a 201 stress-pattern ? ˌmɪljəˈneə
Thanks in advance

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Edited by lucile83 on 02-10-2017 21:56

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Edited by lucile83 on 04-10-2017 09:45

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Re: Millionaire/ stress pattern from here4u, posted on 03-10-2017 at 18:41:41 (D | E)
Hello !
You really seem to be obsessed with word stress-patterns! Good! (learn the stress together with each new word of vocabulary... ) but the rest is important too...
Most of the "long" words have several stresses. In MI/LLIO/NAIRE/, the stronger one (noted 1) is on the last syllable, but the word has a secondary stress (noted 2) which is on the first syllable. The second syllable (noted 0) is unstressed=> therefore the stress-pattern of "millionaire" is : 2 0 1 .
If you follow this link : Link

you'll hear it!

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Re: Millionaire/ stress pattern from gerondif, posted on 03-10-2017 at 19:59:43 (D | E)
Hello
have a look at this, an easy document to find, by typing "stressing words in aire" on google:
Link

By the way, your question should be in the indirect speech:
Could anybody please tell me why does millionaire have a 201 stress-pattern ?
Could anybody please tell me why millionaire has a 201 stress-pattern ?

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Re: Millionaire/ stress pattern from zilazila, posted on 04-10-2017 at 08:51:34 (D | E)
Hello gerondif,
Do you mean that this sentence is completely wrong?
"Could anybody please tell me why does millionaire have a 201 stress-pattern ?"

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Re: Millionaire/ stress pattern from lucile83, posted on 04-10-2017 at 09:49:19 (D | E)
Hello
Yes that sentence was wrong; I didn't notice it 2 days ago It's reported speech, you can't use inversion.
Thanks to gerondif for his correction!

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Re: Millionaire/ stress pattern from mah, posted on 04-10-2017 at 19:55:51 (D | E)
Hello everybody!
Yes dear zilazila. We know that we don't use the second part of the sentence in question :
For example: Do you know where they went? ( not where did they go) or: I couldn't guess when they left. Not Where when did they leave)
See you!

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Edited by lucile83 on 04-10-2017 22:08

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Re: Millionaire/ stress pattern from asafie, posted on 05-10-2017 at 22:59:36 (D | E)
Thank you!
By the way I’m sorry about the mistakes I made, sometimes I’ve got the impression that I really suck at English


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Edited by lucile83 on 06-10-2017 08:28

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