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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kunter, Gero
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2011.
Colección:Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 539.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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.