What are the rules of word stress?
Hi,
I just want to know all the rules of word stress and how to pronounce a word correctly by obeying the rules of word stress.
For example, the words "case", "high", "see" or any other words
I would really appreciate it if any of you could help me with my problem.
(What I asked is related to American English accent)

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Accent / stress rules in English are quite complicated.  Only a dictionary will tell you for sure where to place stress in a particular word.  See the following for starters:

http://blog.penningtonpublishing.com/reading/ten-english-accent-rules/

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All the words you mentioned are one syllable! There's only one place to put the stress there.

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