Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 General introduction: overview and caveats
- PART I The stress of underived 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
- References
- Subject index
- Index of names
- Index of languages
- Index of suffixes
5 - Stress and vowel length
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 General introduction: overview and caveats
- PART I The stress of underived 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
- References
- Subject index
- Index of names
- Index of languages
- Index of suffixes
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- Principles of English Stress , pp. 127 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994