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" Stress variation in English / "
Alexander Tokar.
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883503
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| Main Entry
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Tokar, Alexander,1980-
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| Title & Author
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Stress variation in English /\ Alexander Tokar.
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| Publication Statement
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Tübingen :: Narr Francke Attempto,, 2017.
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| Series Statement
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Language in performance,; 50
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1 online resource (243 pages)
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3823391801
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3823300431
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3823381806
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9783823300434
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9783823381808
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Scope of the study ; Previous studies ; Structure of the book -- Theoretical preliminaries. Stress vs. accent ; Primary stress vs. secondary stress ; Stress / accent vs. no stress ; Stress placement across the globe -- Methodology. Dictionary-based study: OED ; Other resources and tools ; YouTube-based study -- Stress assignment in English. Monosyllables ; Disyllables ; Stress preservation ; Segmental length ; Suffix-like endings ; Hiatus resolution and / or vowel elision ; Disyllables as parts of longer words ; Rhythm, emphasis, and semantics ; Compounds ; Summary ; Three and more syllables ; Suffixed and back-derivatives ; Prefixation ; More on penultimate stress ; Stress non-preservation ; Stress shifts ; Segmental length in trisyllables ; Suffix-like endings ; Heavy ults in trisyllables ; Foreignness ; Summary ; Secondary stress ; Concatenations of words ; Across-varietal differences? -- Case studies. Stress variation in the OED ; Overall results ; Degree-of-stress variation ; Location-of-stress variation ; Penultimate vs. antepenultimate stress ; Final vs. penultimate stress ; Final stress vs. other stresses ; Other categories ; Left-/right-prominence vs. word stress ; Stresslessness ; Hiatus resolution ; Stress variation in YouTube ; Overall results: YouTube vs. OED ; Adjacent words ; Vowel effect ; More on stress non-preservation ; More on disyllables ; Final stress in trisyllables ; Hiatus resolution ; Within-speaker variation ; Summary -- Concluding remarks. English as a Germanic language ; Future work -- References. Dictionaries / databases and corpora ; Software and online tools ; Literature -- Appendix -- Index.
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This monograph is concerned with the question of why some English words have more than one stress pattern. E.g., 'overt vs. o'vert, 'pulsate vs. pul'sate, etc. It is argued that cases such as these are due to the fact that the morphological structure of one and the same English word can sometimes be analyzed in more than one way. Thus, 'overt is the stress pattern of the suffixation analysis over + -t, whereas o'vert is due to the prefixation analysis o- + -vert (cf. covert). Similarly, pulsate is simultaneously pulse + -ate (i.e., a suffixed derivative) and a back-derivative from pul'satance. 0Tokars approach in the use of both dictionary (OED) and corpus data (YouTube) holds promise of a scholarly breakthrough on the vital linguistic prosodic topic of English stress assignment of doublets and of stress assignment in general. (Irmengard Rauch, Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley).
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English language-- Accents and accentuation.
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English language-- Accents and accentuation.
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| Dewey Classification
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420
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| LC Classification
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PE1139.T65 2017eb
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400sdnb
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HF 200rvk
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