Humanities Series
Monomorphemic Exceptions to English
Stress Assignment
When dealing with stress assignment on the word level, many
exceptions to hitherto defined principles can be found in the English
language. While some exceptions can be explained by word or
morpheme boundaries, others do not fit so easliy into the underlying
systematicity of English stress behaviour. Some are often described as
simply being idiosyncratic. A new statistical analysis reveals that many
of these exceptions do share some common features to a certain extent,
in particular in their orthography. Can this kind of features be used to
establish additional rules in order to account for exceptional cases of
English stress assignment? Or is there no other means but to consider
these cases as lexcially exceptional?
Christian Schaller
Master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics, graduated at the
University of Constance, Germany. Employed in the language services
industry with a major global language services provider, in
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.
978-3-639-39283-8
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Christian Schaller
Monomorphemic Exceptions
to English Stress Assignment
An Analysis of English Noun Stress
AV AkademikerVerlag
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