- Tytuł:
- Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English
- Autorzy:
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Orzechowska, Paula
Mołczanow, Janina
Jankowski, Michał - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1026707.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2019-06-30
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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English
lexical stress
onsets
phonotactics - Opis:
- This paper investigates the interplay between the metrical structure and phonotactic complexity in English, a language with lexical stress and an elaborate inventory of consonant clusters. The analysis of a dictionary- and corpus-based list of polysyllabic words leads to two major observations. First, there is a tendency for onsetful syllables to attract stress, and for onsetless syllables to repel it. Second, the stressed syllable embraces a greater array of consonant clusters than unstressed syllables. Moreover, the farther form the main stress, the less likely the unstressed syllable is to contain a complex onset. This finding indicates that the ability of a position to license complex onsets is related to its distance from the prosodic head.
- Źródło:
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Research in Language; 2019, 17, 2; 167-178
1731-7533 - Pojawia się w:
- Research in Language
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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