0 a short vertical line that, when the pronunciation of a word is being shown, is printed before the syllable that receives the most stress or the second most stress in the word:
But, since the stress mark is non-contrastive in monosyllables, the effects are the same.
In a few cases (mostly on the vowels and), the stress mark is orthographically required to distinguish words which are homonyms.
This is rare, however, as usually meaning is determined by context and no stress mark is written.
For clarity, stress marks have been added in all words.
In summary, non-penultimate stress follows from stress marked underlyingly.
In reduplicative forms, stress marks indicate which stem syllable bears stress.
Stress marks show the location of primary stress in the suffixed form.
Acute accents (technically, stress marks) are used in dictionaries to indicate the stressed syllable.
