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Secondary Stress Variation in Contemporary English

Tokar, Alexander

Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2018-01, Vol.43 (2), p.159-191

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Título:
Secondary Stress Variation in Contemporary English
Autor: Tokar, Alexander
Assuntos: Artikel ; Dictionaries ; English language ; Morphology ; Phonology ; Stress
É parte de: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2018-01, Vol.43 (2), p.159-191
Descrição: This article deals with variably stressed English words such as phantasmagoria, which receive secondary stress on either the first or the second syllable: ˌphantasmaˈgoria vs. phanˌtasmaˈgoria. It is argued that cases such as this have morphological rather than phonological causes. That is, the stress pattern ˌphantasmaˈgoria is due to the initially stressed disyllable ˈphantasm, whereas phanˌtasmaˈgoria is due to the penultimately stressed trisyllables phanˈtasma, phanˈtasmal, phanˈtasmic. Another important factor is emphasis, which is the reason initial secondary stress often occurs in pairs of words such as antagonistic – protagonistic, which are formally different from each other only with regard to their initial monosyllabic strings an-/pro-.
Editor: Graz: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH Co. KG
Idioma: Inglês;Esloveno

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