Domahs, Ulrike ORCID: 0000-0002-8248-9393, Plag, Ingo and Carroll, Rebecca ORCID: 0000-0002-6714-4944 (2014). Word stress assignment in German, English and Dutch: Quantity-sensitivity and extrametricality revisited. J. Comp. Ger. Linguist., 17 (1). S. 59 - 97. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1572-8552

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Abstract

English, German, and Dutch show very similar word stress patterns, in that word stress is not fixed to a certain position within a word, but realized within the final three syllables. There is, however, no consensus on the actual stress-assigning algorithms and the role of quantity (e.g., Kiparsky 1982; Wiese 2000; Hayes 1995; Giegerich 1985, 1992; Trommelen and Zonneveld 1999a, b). Existing studies are methodologically problematic since they largely depend on convenience samples of existing words and do not test their claims with new words. Using mixed effects regression and classification trees as analytical tools, this paper presents the results of a production experiment with pseudowords and an analysis of large random samples as found in the CELEX lexical database. It is shown that stress assignment is sensitive to syllabic weight in all three languages, though in slightly different ways. The implications of these results for the metrical structure of the three languages are discussed.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Domahs, UlrikeUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-8248-9393UNSPECIFIED
Plag, IngoUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Carroll, RebeccaUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-6714-4944UNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-441005
DOI: 10.1007/s10828-014-9063-9
Journal or Publication Title: J. Comp. Ger. Linguist.
Volume: 17
Number: 1
Page Range: S. 59 - 97
Date: 2014
Publisher: SPRINGER
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
ISSN: 1572-8552
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
METRICAL STRUCTURE; PATTERNSMultiple languages
Linguistics; Language & LinguisticsMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/44100

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