Date: 15-Dec-2005 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org> Subject: Principles of English Stress: Burzio
Title: Principles of English Stress
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 72
Published: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: Luigi Burzio, Johns Hopkins University
Paperback: ISBN: 0521023807 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 30.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521023807 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 53.00
Abstract:
Luigi Burzio's Principles of English Stress challenges many of the assumptions that have underpinned the generative description of English stress and more generally 'standard' metrical theory. Central to Burzio's analysis is a novel typology of metrical constituents that includes ternary feet and excludes monosyllabic feet. The analysis is essentially nonderivational in character: principles of well-formedness check for the presence of stress and weight in the output. The principles themselves are organized into a hierarchy consisting of a hardcore-controlling foot form that in cases of conflict may override principles of metrical consistency and alignment of edges. The interplay among these competing principles accounts for the cyclic effects of the standard theory. A special role is accorded phonetically null syllables that analyse hidden metrical structure to preserve a simple foot inventory and sharply curtail the standard theory's extrametricality.
"The ideas explored in Principles of English Stress are highly original, the analysis is remarkably comprehensive, the arguments are lucidly presented and will surely prompt a serious reconsideration of many central tenets of metrical stress theory." Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1. General introduction Part I. The Stress of Undesired Items: 2. Null vowels and extrametricality 3. The stress pattern of English 4. Stress without destressing and vowel reduction 5. Stress and vowel length Part II: Stress and Word Formation: 6. Weak preservation 7. The range of stress 'placing' suffixes 8. Strong preservation 9. The range of neutral suffixes 10. Extensions and refinements
Linguistic Field(s):
Linguistic Theories
Morphology
Phonology
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