New Perspectives on English Word Stress (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Yamada, Eiji; Ballier, Nicolas; Fournier, Jean-Michel; Przewozny, Anne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The study of English word stress: New perspectives on its history, current state and issues

• Explores a range of approaches and topics including the Guierrian School of phonology, the relevance of orthography in English phonology, stress placement in English verbs and the diversity of Englishes
• Examines word stress in English and the diversity of Englishes with discussion of Australian and Singaporean English
• Brings together contributors from France, Japan and the US
• Includes over 60 tables and figures to clearly demonstrate key concepts, data and ideas

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399519953
• Artikelnr.: 72431471

Autorenporträt

Eiji Yamada is Professor of English Linguistics at Fukuoka University, Japan Anne Przewozny is Professor of English Linguistics at Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University, France Jean-Michel Fournier is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Tours, France Nicolas Ballier is Professor of English Linguistics at Université Paris Cité, France