Most two-syllable words in English are stressed on the first syllable.

英语中的很多双音节单词的重音都是在第一个音节。

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Modern Chinese two-syllable compound words many of the quantity, USES widely.

现代汉语双音节复合词的数量多，用途广。

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It concludes that two-syllable words are primary and no one-syllable words appear, and the syllabic length is between1 and12 syllables.

结论是：以双音节词为主导，单音词零增长，词长的极限是1 - 12个音节。

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Finally, note that there are just 14 words in the revised sentence, compared with 19 in the original, and that nine of them are one-syllable, three are two-syllable and two are three-syllable.

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