Analysis of stress patterns in English nouns with three open syllables using a lexical database
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This study investigates the role of vowel quality, especially the low vowel a, in stress placement in English. For this purpose, the lemmas on a lexical database CELEX (Baayen, Piepenbrock and Gulikers 1995) were examined with a focus on words with three open syllables such as Canada and banana. The results show that <a> attracts stress onto the syllable which contains it. More specifically, 50% - 70% of the second syllables are stressed when they have the vowel <a> while only 24% - 30% of the second syllables are stressed when there is no <a>. In the standard metrical theory, this effect of vowel quality on stress placement is not expected because standard analyses of English stress are based only on vowel length and the number of coda consonants. It will be argued that the special behavior of the low vowel a is closely related to the phonetic properties of a.
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This study investigates the role of vowel quality, especially the low vowel a, in stress placement in English. For this purpose, the lemmas on a lexical database CELEX (Baayen, Piepenbrock and Gulikers 1995) were examined with a focus on words with three open syllables such as Canada and banana. The results show that <a> attracts stress onto the syllable which contains it. More specifically, 50% - 70% of the second syllables are stressed when they have the vowel <a> while only 24% - 30% of the second syllables are stressed when there is no <a>. In the standard metrical theory, this effect of vowel quality on stress placement is not expected because standard analyses of English stress are based only on vowel length and the number of coda consonants. It will be argued that the special behavior of the low vowel a is closely related to the phonetic properties of a.
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