Phonetics and Phonology

This exercise tries to underline the importance of stress by showing that stress can distinguish between different word classes. Try to find out to which word class the given word belongs.

[sɜ:ˈveɪ] survey (:vips 7706:)

[ɔ:lˈtɜ:nət] alternate (:vips 7707:)

[səˈpɔ:t] support (:vips 7708:)

[ˈɒbdʒekt] object (:vips 7709:)

[əbˈdʒektɪv] objective (:vips 7710:)

[ˈsʌspekt] suspect (:vips 7711:)