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

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Kunter, Gero.

Series:

Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag)

Linguistische Arbeiten, 0344-6727

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Compound words.

English language.

English language--Intonation.

English language--Accents and accentuation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Diss. Universität SIegen 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613166760

9781283166768

1283166763

9783110254709

3110254700

OCLC:

744520427