Eiji Yamada, "New Perspectives on English Word Stress"
English | ISBN: 139951993X | 2023 | 269 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 139951993X | 2023 | 269 pages | PDF | 5 MB
New Perspectives on English Word Stress explores the mechanism of word stress assignment in contemporary English from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. Comprising nine chapters, these approaches include a historical overview of the study of stress; the relationship between historic changes in stress and meaning; the relationship between spelling and stress; syllable weight and stress; the theoretical treatment of exceptions; stress mechanisms in Australian English; and stress in Singapore English. The book presents new data and provides the reader with access to various approaches to English word stress in phonology.
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