英文就有所謂嘅詞重音（lexical stress）現象，即係話喺多音節嘅字詞當中「邊一截音節要重音」可以起到區分詞義嘅作用，例子：
| 隻字詞羅馬字點寫 |
詞彙 1 |
詞彙 2
|
| Present [1] |
/'pre-zənt/，名詞指禮物 |
/pri-'zent/，動詞指匯報
|
| Permit [2] |
/ˈpər-ˌmit/，名詞指准許證 |
/pər-ˈmit/，動詞指准許
|
- ↑ Tong, X., Lee, S. M. K., Lee, M. M. L., & Burnham, D. (2015). A tale of two features: Perception of Cantonese lexical tone and English lexical stress in Cantonese-English bilinguals. PloS one, 10(11), e0142896.
- ↑ permit. Merriam-Webster.
