공음절핵과 영어의 어강세

Abstract

It has generally been assumed that English stress has a bearing on the syllable weight. Considering the syllable weight means that codas are important in stress theory. However, consonants should not be counted in stress because stress is purely a characteristic of vowels like tone or intonation. Based on Government Phonology, we accept the idea that the real identity of a coda is a consonant occurring before an empty nucleus and propose a simple account of English word stress using the strict CV structure proposed by Lowenstamm(1996). The foot is binary or ternary instead of binary or unary. Feet are left-headed(trochee or dactyl) in English. While a binary foot is made at the end of a string which comprises long vowels or a short vowel plus a consonant, a ternary foot is made at the end of a string which is composed of two consonants or at a string of CVCVCV, CVCVCv, or CVVCv. The alternative approach assigns English stresses correctly and simply.