... to Speech, incomplete draft, undergroland press, 1979 Chomsky, N., and Halle, M., The Sound Pattern of English, Harper and Row, 1968 Church, K., Stress Assignment in Letter to Sound Rules for Speech ... support the the stress neutral theory because they never receive main stress But, they can also be accounted for under the compound theory because they form nouns, and therefore the main stress would ... (almost) never take the main stress However, un- can also be accounted for under the compound theory by noting that un- forms adjectives and verbs, and therefore main stress would fall on the right...