New Perspectives on English Word Stress

Eiji Yamada is Professor of English Linguistics at Fukuoka University, Japan Anne Przewozny is Professor of English Linguistics at Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University, France Jean-Michel Fournier is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Tours, France Nicolas Ballier is Professor of English Linguistics at Université Paris Cité, France

• List of FiguresList of Tables List of AppendixesList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: English Word Stress: Theories, Data and Variation - Eiji Yamada, Anne Przewozny, Jean-Michel Fournier and Nicolas Ballier1. On the Treatment of English Word Stress within the Generative Tradition: History, Concepts and Debates - Jacques Durand and Eiji Yamada2. English Word Stress and the Guierrian School - Quentin Dabouis, Jean-Michel Fournier, Pierre Fournier and Marjolaine Martin 3. Stress Placement in Etymologically Prefixed Disyllabic Noun/Verb Pairs Revisited: A Semantic and Diachronic Approach - Jérémy Castanier4. English Phonology and the Literate Speaker: Some Implications for Lexical Stress - Quentin Dabouis5. The Stress Patterns of English Verbs: Syllable Weight and Morphology - Quentin Dabouis and Jean-Michel Fournier6. Lexical Stress in Varieties of Australian English: A Corpus-Based Exploration - Anne Przewozny and Marjolaine Martin7. Melodic Complexity and Lexical Stress in Singapore English: An Experimental Study - Gabor Turcsan and Oriana Reid-Collins8. Input Optimization and Lexical Stress in English - Michael Hammond9. A Solution to Theoretical Shortcomings in the Stress Assignment of Words in English - Eiji YamadaIndex

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