Full Description
New Perspectives on English Word Stress explores the mechanism of word stress assignment in contemporary English from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. Comprising nine chapters, these approaches include a historical overview of the study of stress; the relationship between historic changes in stress and meaning; the relationship between spelling and stress; syllable weight and stress; the theoretical treatment of exceptions; stress mechanisms in Australian English; and stress in Singapore English. The book presents new data and provides the reader with access to various approaches to English word stress in phonology.
Contents
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Introduction: English Word Stress: Theories, Data and Variation - Eiji Yamada, Anne Przewozny, Jean-Michel Fournier and Nicolas Ballier
1. On the Treatment of English Word Stress within the Generative Tradition: History, Concepts and Debates - Jacques Durand and Eiji Yamada
2. English Word Stress and the Guierrian School - Quentin Dabouis, Jean-Michel Fournier, Pierre Fournier and Marjolaine Martin
3. Stress Placement in Etymologically Prefixed Disyllabic Noun/Verb Pairs Revisited: A Semantic and Diachronic Approach - Jérémy Castanier
4. English Phonology and the Literate Speaker: Some Implications for Lexical Stress - Quentin Dabouis
5. The Stress Patterns of English Verbs: Syllable Weight and Morphology - Quentin Dabouis and Jean-Michel Fournier
6. Lexical Stress in Varieties of Australian English: A Corpus-Based Exploration - Anne Przewozny and Marjolaine Martin
7. Melodic Complexity and Lexical Stress in Singapore English: An Experimental Study - Gabor Turcsan and Oriana Reid-Collins
8. Input Optimization and Lexical Stress in English - Michael Hammond
9. A Solution to Theoretical Shortcomings in the Stress Assignment of Words in English - Eiji Yamada
Index
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