<P> Statements about the position of stress are sometimes affected by the fact that when a word is spoken in isolation , prosodic factors ( see below ) come into play , which do not apply when the word is spoken normally within a sentence . French words are sometimes said to be stressed on the final syllable , but that can be attributed to the prosodic stress that is placed on the last syllable ( unless it is a schwa , when it is the second - last ) of any string of words in that language . Thus , it is on the last syllable of a word analyzed in isolation . The situation is similar in Standard Chinese . French ( some authors add Chinese ) can be considered to have no real lexical stress . </P>
<P> Statements about the position of stress are sometimes affected by the fact that when a word is spoken in isolation , prosodic factors ( see below ) come into play , which do not apply when the word is spoken normally within a sentence . French words are sometimes said to be stressed on the final syllable , but that can be attributed to the prosodic stress that is placed on the last syllable ( unless it is a schwa , when it is the second - last ) of any string of words in that language . Thus , it is on the last syllable of a word analyzed in isolation . The situation is similar in Standard Chinese . French ( some authors add Chinese ) can be considered to have no real lexical stress . </P>
where is the stress in french words typically placed
where is the stress in french words typically placed
final syllable
final syllable