Re: dialectal diversity in English

> but when I first began
> studying German, I was surprised how unintelligable my teachers found
even
> one shift of stress in polysyllabic words. I can't remember a specific
real
> example, but it was similar to saying [ar\"bait@n] instead of
["ar\bait@n]
> in _Wo arbeiten Sie?_.
<arbeiten> and its various inflected forms is always stressed on the
first syllable. Primary stress on the first, secondary stress on the
second, third syllable unstressed.

Dan