Asymmetric Correlations between English Verb Transitivity and Stress

Fullwood, Michelle Alison

doi:10.3765/bls.v40i0.3136

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“…In contrast, real language usage always reflects a large number of different factors, some system-internal, others not. For example, transitive verbs might prefer final rather than penultimate stress, because they are more likely than intransitives to be followed by a noun phrase beginning with an unstressed article (see Fullwood 2014). Likewise, the stress pattern of a specific word might be due to lexical solidarities or formulaic sequences in which it is involved.…”

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“…The idea is not new. The impact of rhythmic, and ultimately utterance-based, constraints on the lexical and grammatical constituents of specific languages is demonstrated by, for example, Donegan & Stampe (1983), Kelly (1988, 1989), Schlüter (2005) and Fullwood (2014). Also, our paper relates to studies of rhythmically induced accent shifts, as in ˈ Tennes ˌ see (← ˌ Tennes ˈ see ) ˈ air and ˈ thir ˌ teen (← ˌ thir ˈ teen ) ˈ men (cf.…”

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On the replicator dynamics of lexical stress: accounting for stress-pattern diversity in terms of evolutionary game theory

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Ritt

2017

Phonology

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This paper accounts for stress-pattern diversity in languages such as English, where words that are otherwise equivalent in terms of phonotactic structure and morphosyntactic category can take both initial and final stress, as seen in ˈlentil–hoˈtel, ˈenvoy–deˈgree, ˈresearchN–reˈsearchNand ˈaccessV–acˈcessV. Addressing the problem in general and abstract terms, we identify systematic conditions under which stress-pattern diversity becomes stable. We hypothesise that words adopt stress patterns that produce, on average, the best possible phrase-level rhythm. We model this hypothesis in evolutionary game theory, predict that stress-pattern diversity among polysyllabic word forms depends on the frequency of monosyllables and demonstrate how that prediction is met both in Present-Day English and in its history.

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Section: English Word Stressmentioning

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On the replicator dynamics of lexical stress: accounting for stress-pattern diversity in terms of evolutionary game theory

Baumann

Ritt

2017

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Stress in real time

Hofmann

2020

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This contribution reviews a series of studies by Kelly (and Bock), suggesting that stress preferences of English nouns and verbs for left-hand and right-hand stress patterns are partly a result of alternating rhythm in real utterances. This claim is tested on diachronic corpus data to verify its historical implications. By using verse evidence to calibrate stress values for historical word classes, the quantitative analysis confirms that distributional asymmetries regarding strong and weak syllables in the contexts of nouns and verbs have existed at least since Late Middle English. In addition, the claim that stem-final segments predict the likelihood of right-hand stress is not only confirmed but found to be independent of etymological origin.

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UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports

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Asymmetric Correlations between English Verb Transitivity and Stress

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On the replicator dynamics of lexical stress: accounting for stress-pattern diversity in terms of evolutionary game theory

On the replicator dynamics of lexical stress: accounting for stress-pattern diversity in terms of evolutionary game theory

Stress in real time

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