By just looking at a word, there is no way for you to know what the stressed syllables are. You should look up the word in a dictionary: it will tell you the pronunciation of the word, along with stressed/unstressed syllables.
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PRONUNCIATION OF 'RESEARCH'
(noun, verb): re-surch or re-surch. Both forms are listed in the Cambridge Dictionary.
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You find the unstressed syllable by elimination. Find the stressed syllable first, and then the others will be the unstressed ones.
A stressed syllable is the one you put all the sound into, like SYLlable. So the first syllable is stressed, and the final two (lab and le) are UNstressed.
Other examples:
* PREsident (si and dent are unstressed). * aMErica (a and ri and ca are unstressed). * SingaPORE (Sing and a are unstressed). * PAkiSTAN (ki is unstressed. Some words have two stressed syllables, like Pakistan.)
There is no standard way (yet) to represent stressed syllables in written form.
The dictionary will identify it by putting a single apostrophe (') before the stressed syllable.
In spoken English, it is louder than (all) other syllables.
There is generally only one stressed syllable per word.
There are many different words with syllables. Emphasis on a syllable typically comes at the first or last syllable of a word.
a stress is like a sound or mark that you would put a hard tone or a high tone to define the correct pronounceation of the syllabe in a word