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This paper deals with English compound stress. It is generally assumed that English compounds have stress in the first elements as described in Compound Stress Rule in SPE. A closer look, however, shows that the general rule does not apply across the board and we frequently come across English compounds that have the primary stress in the second element. Based on Cinque (1993) and Lee (1995), this paper proposes that the assignment of primary stress in compound is the result of constraint interactions. StressComp, StressFH (Final Head) are proposed to integrate the observation that the syntactic and semantic head of compound plays an important role in the stress assignment. In addition, it is shown that the general stress constraint Nonfinality interacts with above-mentioned interface constraints to correctly predict the location of stress in English compounds.