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 following cases: Note that this last-mentioned group of syllables are those ascribed tertiary stress in the approach described in the next section. In some theories, English has been described as having three levels of stress: primary, secondary, and tertiary (in addition to the unstressed level, which in this approach may also be called quaternary stress). For example, our examples would be "²coun.ter.³in.¹tel.li.gence" and "¹coun.ter.³foil." Exact treatments vary, but it is common for tertiary stress to be assigned to those syllables that, while not assigned primary or secondary stress, nonetheless contain "full" vowels (unreduced vowels, i.e., those not among the reduced