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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823263503321

Autore

Kunter Gero

Titolo

Compound stress in English : the phonetics and phonology of prosodic prominence / / Gero Kunter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16676-3

9786613166760

3-11-025470-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727

Classificazione

HF 260

Disciplina

421.58

Soggetti

English language - Compound words

English language - Intonation

English language - Accents and accentuation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Compounds, stress and prominence: concepts and issues -- 3 The corpus -- 4 Perception of compound prominence patterns -- 5 Acoustic correlates of compound prominence -- 6 Classification and prediction of compound prominence patterns -- 7 What determines compound prominence patterns? -- 8 Within- and across-speaker variation -- 9 Conclusion -- A Introduction to linear regression and mixed-effects models -- B NOUN + NOUN compounds used in the variability study -- References

Sommario/riassunto

This volume addresses several claims about the two prominence patterns found in English nominal compounds in a rigorously empirical way. Listener proficiency to identify these patterns is investigated, and the acoustic properties that distinguish the patterns are identified. These properties are used to predict statistically the prominence pattern of any given compound. The book further analyzes the semantic and structural factors influencing the distribution of the prominence patterns, and addresses the extent of within- and across-speaker variability in English compound stress assignment.