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• Title:
  Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English
• Creator:
  Orzechowska, Paula;
  Mołczanow, Janina;
  Jankowski, Michał
• Contributor:
  Orzechowska, Paula - Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland;
  Mołczanow, Janina - University of Warsaw, Poland;
  Jankowski, Michał - Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland;
  Orzechowska, Paula - paulao@wa.amu.edu.pl;
  Mołczanow, Janina - jmolczanow@uw.edu.pl;
  Jankowski, Michał - mjank@wa.amu.edu.pl
• Description:
  This paper investigates the interplay between the metrical structure and phonotactic complexity in English, a language with lexical stress and an elaborate inventory of consonant clusters. The analysis of a dictionary- and corpus-based list of polysyllabic words leads to two major observations. First, there is a tendency for onsetful syllables to attract stress, and for onsetless syllables to repel it. Second, the stressed syllable embraces a greater array of consonant clusters than unstressed syllables. Moreover, the farther form the main stress, the less likely the unstressed syllable is to contain a complex onset. This finding indicates that the ability of a position to license complex onsets is related to its distance from the prosodic head.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.02.23;
  2019.06.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;2;
  17
• Subject:
  English;
  lexical stress;
  onsets;
  phonotactics
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33804 ;
  10.18778/1731-7533.17.2.04
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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