 However, primary stress does occur on the second syllable of most words, including the words in which the roots cannot be isolated.The weakest degree of stress falls on a syllable following a primarily or secondarily stressed syllable, and alternates on the following syllables.The syllables following the primarily stressed syllable alternates with every second syllable being slightly louder than the preceding unstressed syllable, but not as loud as the primarily or secondarily stressed syllable.