New Perspectives on English Word Stress

269 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie
• ISBN: 9781399519939
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.07.2023
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Nicolas Ballier, Anne Przewozny, Jean-Michel Fournier, Eiji Yamada