Principles of English Stress
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- Author: Luigi Burzio, The Johns Hopkins University
- Date Published: February 2011
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In this provocative work, Luigi Burzio argues that many common assumptions within stress theory, and phonological theory more generally, are in fact rather arbitrary. He proposes radical departures from recent tradition. In Part I he analyzes stress in the underived English lexicon, arguing that the basic accentual groups or "feet" are not monosyllabic or bisyllabic, as often assumed, but rather bisyllabic or trisyllabic. This analysis brings significant simplifications to other recent theorizing, including the elimination of standard extrametrically and all rules destressing. In Part II Professor Burzio deals with morphologically complex words, and argues that various phenomena of stress presevation, including the apparent stress "neutrality" of a class of affixes, are all predictable reflexes of a single principle of Metrical Consistency. In addition to a superior account of stress, the proposed metrical theory yields a unitary account of a wide spectrum of vowel-length alternations, in an overall conception of phonology which is modular, like that of comtemporary syntax. The book makes a major theoretical contribution to the analysis of English word stress and to phonological theory.
Read more- Burzio one of world's leading theoretical linguists
- His theory is controversial - will attract a great deal of attention
- Most detailed account ever of workings of English stress
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"The ideas explored in Principles of English Stress are highly original, the analysis is remarkably comprehensive, the arguments are lucidly presented and will surely prompt a serious reconsideration of many central tenets of metrical stress theory." Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Date Published: February 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511834165
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. General introduction
Part I. The Stress of Undesired Items:
2. Null vowels and extrametricality
3. The stress pattern of English
4. Stress without destressing and vowel reduction
5. Stress and vowel length
Part II: Stress and Word Formation:
6. Weak preservation
7. The range of stress 'placing' suffixes
8. Strong preservation
9. The range of neutral suffixes
10. Extensions and refinements.
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