Book contents
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Phonetic Correlates and Prominence Distinctions
- 1 Acoustic Correlates and Perceptual Cues of Word and Sentence Stress
- 2 Positional Prominence versus Word Accent
- 3 Explaining Word-Final Stress Lapse
- 4 What Danish and Estonian Can Show to a Modern Word-Prosodic Typology
- Part II Typology
- Part III Case Studies
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
3 - Explaining Word-Final Stress Lapse
from Part I - Phonetic Correlates and Prominence Distinctions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2018
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Book contents
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Phonetic Correlates and Prominence Distinctions
- 1 Acoustic Correlates and Perceptual Cues of Word and Sentence Stress
- 2 Positional Prominence versus Word Accent
- 3 Explaining Word-Final Stress Lapse
- 4 What Danish and Estonian Can Show to a Modern Word-Prosodic Typology
- Part II Typology
- Part III Case Studies
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
Focusing on rhythmic stress, this chapter examines evidence for a motivation behind the well-known asymmetrical tolerance for a stress lapse word-initially versus word-finally across languages. Evidence from two different sources is shown to support the connection between languages' tolerance of final stress lapse and their use of duration in stress. Drawing on a database of stress correlates that the author made for this research project, it is shown that languages which tolerate a final stress lapse are indeed extremely likely to have duration as a stress correlate, whereas no such correlation exists for final lapse and the stress correlates of pitch or intensity. Several perception experiments also support this connection: final lengthening was found to be confusable with stress, only if stressed syllables included increased duration. Finally, an account is sketched of how this could be captured in an Optimality Theoretic analysis.
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- The Study of Word Stress and AccentTheories, Methods and Data, pp. 76 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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