Stress marks and stress rules

1. Stresses and accent marks
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2.  “Understanding where to put the emphasis in
a word can be as difficult as sounding out the
word itself. Fortunately, Spanish makes it
easy for you. When a word is stressed on an
irregular syllable, an accent mark will appear
above the stressed vowel”
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3.  In Spanish orthography, stress may be written explicitly with a
single acute accent on a vowel, depending on the syllable such
vowel is
 Stressed antepenultimate syllables are always written with this
accent mark, as in Húngaro.
 If the last syllable is stressed, the accent mark is used if the word
ends in the letters n, s, or a vowel, as in camión, anís and salió.
 If the penultimate syllable is stressed, the accent is used if the
word ends in any other letter (any letter but n, s, or a vowel), as
in cárcel and lápiz.
 That is, if the last letter a word written without an accent mark
is a vowel, n, or s, the stress is on the penult: pato, releen and
cactus.
 But if the last letter a word written without an accent mark is
any other letter, then the stress is on the final syllable: legal,
buscar and libertad.
 However as in Greek, the acute accent is also used for some
words to distinguish various syntactical uses (e.g. té "tea" vs. te -
a form of the pronoun tú; dónde "where" as a pronoun or wh-
complement, donde "where" as an adverb).
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4. In Mac
 á Option + e , a Á Option + e , A
 é Option + e , e É Option + e , E
 í Option + e , i Í Option + e ,
I
 ó Option + e , o Ó Option + e , O
 ú Option + e , u Ú Option + e , U
 ü Option + u , u
 ñ Option + n , n Ñ Option + n , N
 ¡ Option + 1
 ¿ Option + Shift + ?
(Press the 3 keys together)
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5. In Microsoft Word:
 á Ctrl + (apostrophe) , a Á Ctrl + (apostrophe) , A
 é Ctrl + (apostrophe) , e É Ctrl + (apostrophe) , E
 í Ctrl + (apostrophe) , i Í Ctrl + (apostrophe) , I
 ó Ctrl + (apostrophe) , o Ó Ctrl + (apostrophe) , O
 ú Ctrl + (apostrophe) , u Ú Ctrl + (apostrophe) , U
 Ü Ctrl + Shift + (colon) , u
 ñ Ctrl + Shift + ~ (tilde) , n Ñ Ctrl + Shift + ~
(tilde) , N
 ¡ Alt + Ctrl + Shift + ! (Press the 4 keys together)
 ¿ Alt + Ctrl + Shift + ? (Press the 4 keys together)
Most of these formulas represent two step operations
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6. Compare the previous explanation to this other
presentation and try doing the exercises
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/
ats/03.htm
.
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7.  http://www.rocketlanguages.com/spanish/p
ronunciation_spanish_accents.php
 http://www.e-
spanyol.hu/en/grammar/stress.php
 http://www.irvingisd.net/districtweekly/flye
rs/typing_in_spanish.htm
 http://www.conted.und.edu/Bbsix/courses/t
ypespanish.html
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