Arne Lohmann , English coordinate constructions: A processing perspective on constituent order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 214. ISBN 978-1-107-04088-5.

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“…(Note, however, that even here specific semantic distinctions have been shown to exist between some of the pairs.) 25) the teacher's method vs. the method of the teacher (Ehret, Wolk & Szmrecsanyi 2014, Shih, Grafmiller, Futrell & Bresnan 2015, (26) he knew (that) Lucy washed the dishes (Lee & Gibbons 2007), (27) green and yellow vs. yellow and green (Mollin 2012, Lohmann 2014), (28) colleges and universities vs. universities and colleges (Mollin 2012, Lohmann 2014), (29) John likes beans vs. beans, John likes (Speyer 2010).…”

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“…H1: Two adjectives with equivalent meanings and different rhythmic shapes (monosyllabic and end-stressed or plurisyllabic and non-end-stressed) do not occur equally often in all syntactic functions. (2012,2014); Lohmann (2014); Ehret, Wolk & Szmrecsanyi (2014); Shih, Grafmiller, Futrell & Bresnan (2015). 3 In the examples here and elsewhere, acute accents are added to indicate primary lexical stress.…”

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Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance

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2020

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In this paper we argue that (near) synonymy can result in syntactic specialization, and we test the hypothesis that one major factor underlying such fixation may be rhythmic in nature. Thus, the analysis extends the study of the preference for alternating stressed and unstressed syllables (Schlüter, 2005) to lexical choices. We investigate the syntactic distribution of the (near-)synonymous adjective pairs rich vs. wealthy, fast/quick vs. rapid, glad vs. happy and shut vs. closed, showing that the monosyllabic members -or the one with a short syllable as opposed to a long syllable -tend to be underrepresented in prenominal position. Our hypothesis is that, due to the pervasiveness of initial stress in English nouns, monosyllabic adjectives tend to be avoided in prenominal position if they can be replaced by disyllabic equivalents. By extension, in the absence of such equivalents, other kinds of temporal spacing between stresses, such as long instead of short syllables, can satisfy the rhythmic requirement. Drawing on large historical as well as present-day corpora covering the 19 th and 20 th centuries (mainly COHA and COCA), we portray some relatively stable asymmetrical diachronic and synchronic distributions of these synonym pairs and triplets across attributive and predicative uses. The analysis will also point to potentially interacting factors, such as concomitant semantic specialization resulting from this syntactic fixation and the status of (fixed) collocations. The latter will be analysed in more diachronic depth on the basis of EEBO.

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Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance

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2020

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“…Schützler looks at three phonetic-phonological variables -(e), (o) and (r) -which may be considered to be the heart of the SSE-SSBE continuum. Scottishness may be indexed by using monophthongal variants of the diphthongs, FACE and GOAT in Wells' (1982) terminology, being consistently rhotic and using more tapped variants in syllable onsets. Pronouncing the vowels with a diphthong, being non-rhotic and using approximants in onset /r/ may be seen as English features.…”

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Ole Schützler , A sociophonetic approach to Scottish Standard English (Varieties of English Around the World G53). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015. Pp. xx + 179.

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Arne Lohmann , English coordinate constructions: A processing perspective on constituent order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 214. ISBN 978-1-107-04088-5.

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Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance

Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance

Ole Schützler , A sociophonetic approach to Scottish Standard English (Varieties of English Around the World G53). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015. Pp. xx + 179.

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