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- Title
Secondary Stress Variation in Contemporary English.
- Authors
Tokar, Alexander
- Abstract
This article1 deals with variably stressed English words such as phantasmagoria which receive secondary stress on either the first or the second syllable: ËŒphantasmagoria vs. phantasmagoria . It is argued that cases such as this have morphological rather than phonological causes. That is, the stress pattern ËŒphantasmagoria is due to the initially stressed disyllable phantasm, whereas phantasmagoria is due to the penultimately stressed trisyllables phantasma, phantasmal, phantasmic. Another important factor is emphasis, which is the reason initial secondary stress often occurs in pairs of words such as antagonistic - protagonistic, which are formally different from each other only with regard to their initial monosyllabic strings an-/pro-.-.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; PHANTASMAGORIA; PHONOLOGY; MONOSYLLABLES; STRESS (Linguistics)
- Publication
AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2018, Vol 43, Issue 2, p159
- ISSN
0171-5410
- Publication type
Article