This document discusses syllable stress and the factors that influence it. It defines stress and outlines the different stress patterns in mono-, bi-, and multi-syllabic words. Monosyllabic words have one syllable, bisyllabic words have two, and multisyllabic words have more than two. Bisyllabic words can have stress on the first, second, either or neither syllable depending on their type. Multisyllabic words often have stress on the first syllable.