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"The most important stress-shifting suffixes are -(t)ion, -ic, -ical, -ion, and -ity. These suffixes account for about 90% of all shifts in word stress in English."

  참고 서적: Grant, Linda. Well Said: Pronunciation for Clear Communication. fourth ed., National Geographic Learning, 2017.

*Suffixes Beginning with -i

able        ability

major.     majority 

compete.     competition 

photograph.    photography

Canada.      Canadian

Japan     Japanese

        -In words with Suffixes Beginning with -i, stress the syllable immediately before the -i suffixes. 

 

*Suffixes Beginning with -graphy and -logy

biography.               ecology

geography.              technology

bibliography.           radiology

          - In words with suffixes beginning with  -graphy and -logy stress the syllable immediately before the -i suffixes.

 

*Suffixes from French (-ee, -eer, -ese, -ique)

-ee:  trustee,  refugee,  trainee

-eer:  volunteer, career, engineer

-ese:  Labanese,  Cantonese,  Viennese

-ique:  technique,  antique, unique

          - In words with French suffixes, the stress falls on the suffix itself.

 

***Exceptions: -ic: politics, Catholic

                           -ee: committee,  coffee

                           -ion: television