Compound Stress in English : : The Phonetics and Phonology of Prosodic Prominence / / Gero Kunter.
This volume addresses several claims about the two prominence patterns found in English nominal compounds in a rigorously empirical way. Listener proficiency to identify these patterns is investigated, and the acoustic properties that distinguish the patterns are identified. These properties are use...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Compounds, stress and prominence: concepts and issues
- 3 The corpus
- 4 Perception of compound prominence patterns
- 5 Acoustic correlates of compound prominence
- 6 Classification and prediction of compound prominence patterns
- 7 What determines compound prominence patterns?
- 8 Within- and across-speaker variation
- 9 Conclusion
- A Introduction to linear regression and mixed-effects models
- B NOUN + NOUN compounds used in the variability study
- References