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Compound stress in English : the phonetics and phonology of prosodic prominence /
While it has long been noted that the first element of most, but not of all English nominal compounds is perceptually most prominent (e.g. TABLE cloth vs. paper CUP), a principled empirical investigation of the acoustics, perception, and the phonological distribution of these two prominence patterns...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2011.
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| Colección: | Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;
539. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | While it has long been noted that the first element of most, but not of all English nominal compounds is perceptually most prominent (e.g. TABLE cloth vs. paper CUP), a principled empirical investigation of the acoustics, perception, and the phonological distribution of these two prominence patterns has been missing. Using a corpus of spoken language, the current volume presents the first thorough and detailed investigation of these areas, while also introducing several methodological and statistical innovations to the field. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225). |
| ISBN: | 3110254700 9783110254709 1283166763 9781283166768 3110254697 9783110254693 |
| ISSN: | 0344-6727 ; |