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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 August 2009
      01 December 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511519741
      9780521445139
      9780521023801
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519741
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.785kg, 388 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.592kg, 388 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Phonetics and Phonology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (72)
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    Subjects:
    Phonetics and Phonology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (72)
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    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.

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    ‘The ideas explored in the book 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

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