Sentence:  Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration , and normally centers on syllables that would <WSD>have</WSD> primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone : a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense