English Stress: Its Form, Its Growth, and Its Role in Verse |
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1 The Main Stress Rule | 3 |
2 Stress Contours of Compound Words and Phrases | 15 |
3 The Alternating Stress Rule and the Stress Adjustment Rule | 26 |
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accent adjectives Alliterative Verse Alternating Stress Rule antepenultimate assign stress assume Auxiliary Reduction Rule Beowulf bisyllabic words Chaucer column compound nouns Compound Rule compound words consonant correspondence rules derivation dialect discussion disjunctively ordered Early Modern English examples fact final vowel formal forms grammar half-line iambic iambic pentameter Initial Stress Rule language last syllable last vowel lax vowel Levins lexical lexical category Main Stress Rule Middle English nontense Nuclear Stress Rule Old English Pattern of English phonetic position prefix primary stress receive final stress receive stress retract stress Romance Stress Rule rule 33 rule applies sequence Sound Pattern Stress Adjustment Rule stress assignment stress contours Stress Retraction Rule stress retraction subrule Stress Rule 75 stressed syllable stressed vowel string suffix syllable syntactic tense vowel Tensing Rule trisyllabic TRISYLLABIC LAXING underlying representation unstressed verbs verse Vowel Reduction Walker weak cluster principle word boundaries words ending X-Co
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A Metrical Theory of Stress and Destressing in English and Dutch René Kager No preview available - 1989 |