Another tradition in English is to assign acute and grave accents for primary and secondary stress, respectively: pronùnciátion.
A similar rule applies in Romanian: secondary stress falls on every alternate syllable, starting with the first, as long as it does not fall adjacent to the primary stress.
[2] In other languages (including Egyptian Radio Arabic,[clarification needed] Bhojpuri, Cayuga, Estonian, Hawaiian, Kaure, Malayalam, and Warrgamay),[3] secondary stress can be predicted to fall on heavy syllables.
This is frequently posited for Germanic languages, including English.
In Norwegian, the pitch accent is lost from one of the roots in a compound word, but the erstwhile tonic syllable retains the full length (long vowel or geminate consonant) of a stressed syllable; this has sometimes been characterized as secondary stress.