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The document discusses stress patterns for utterances containing auxiliaries or forms of to be (BE). It notes that: 1) Mid-utterance, auxiliaries/BE are unstressed and following lexical verbs are stressed. 2) In initial position, auxiliaries/BE are likely stressed in formal speech and unstressed in conversational English. 3) In final position, auxiliaries/BE are unstressed if preceded by a stressed element, and stressed if preceded by an unstressed element such as a pronoun.

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tethanosjr

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