Stress in early childhood different stages in early childhood. In the first stage, stress usually causes alarm. Next, in the second or appraisal stage, the child attempts to find meaning from the event. Stage three consists of children seeking out coping strategies. Lastly, in stage four, children execute one or more of the coping strategies. However, children with lower tolerance for stressors are more susceptible to alarm and find a broader array of events to be stressful. These children often experience chronic or toxic stress. Children from a lower socioeconomic status are more prone to exposure to all the early life stress listed above.
Stress and vowel reduction in English unstressed vowels also derive historically from stressed vowels, due to shifts of stress over time (such as stress shifting away from the final syllable of French loan words, like "ballet" and "bureau", in British English), or the loss or change of stress in compound words or phrases (as in "óverseas vóyage" from "overséas" or "óverséas" plus "vóyage"). There is a tendency, though, for such vowels to become reduced over time, especially in common words. With vowels represented as and , it may be hard to ascertain whether they represent a full vowel or a reduced vowel. A word that illustrates