Blend

Bat‐El, Outi

doi:10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/00109-7

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“…Whereas Bat-El (2006) claims that the length of the blend is identical to the length of Word 2, Bauer (2012) offers the more moderate hypothesis that blends may not be longer than Word 2. In general, length is most often discussed in terms of number of syllables.…”

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The role of prosodic structure in the formation of English blends

Arndt‐Lappe¹,

Plag²

2013

English Language and Linguistics

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1360674313000154How to cite this article: SABINE ARNDT-LAPPE and INGO PLAG (2013). The role of prosodic structure in the formation of English blends. English Language and Linguistics,17, This article investigates a variety of ways in which prosodic factors influence blend structure in English. Recent approaches no longer consider blends unpredictable, but the role of stress in blend formation has not been investigated in detail yet. This article addresses this problem, focusing on the role of stress in determining the switchpoint of the two bases in the blend, and on the question of what determines the stress pattern of the blend. We investigate these questions using experimentally derived forms, coined by native speakers on the basis of carefully controlled word pairs as stimuli. The results demonstrate that the length of the blend, the location of the switchpoint, and the stress of the blend are crucially determined by stress properties of the two base words of the blend, above all by those of the second word. At a theoretical level, the most important single finding is that preservation of the stress of the second word may happen independently of preservation of segmental material of the stressed syllable (e.g. préstitant from prestígious + dóminant). In contrast to stress, and contrary to earlier claims, syllabic constituency is shown to be of minor importance for switchpoint location. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed. On a methodological level, our results show that experimentally elicited blends constitute a valid and highly useful resource for research on blend structure. 1 The authors thank the audiences at several conferences for useful discussions of earlier versions: Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 2012; Data-rich Approaches to English Morphology, Wellington, July 2012; 35. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Postdam, March 2013.We are also very grateful for the feedback provided by the two anonymous ELL reviewers and the editor Bernd Kortmann. Special thanks to Manel Ben Abdallah for developing this project with us and for collecting the data, and to Ute Raffelsiefer for her help with the final coding of the data.

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The role of prosodic structure in the formation of English blends

Arndt‐Lappe¹,

Plag²

2013

English Language and Linguistics

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“…Morphologiquement, on peut également supposer que ces noms résultent d'une autre règle qui contracte deux lexèmes bases pour former un mot-valise (cf. Grésillon, 1984 ;Fradin, 1997 ;Bat-El, 2006). Le deuxième lexème serait ATTITUDE.…”

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Koehl

2012

SHS Web of Conferences

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“…Although there are problematic aspects of blend research, the existing literature addresses constructively a number of topics concerning the nature of blends, and some of these have resulted in promising steps forward towards more comprehensive, and more empirically grounded, theories on lexical blending. Among assumptions that have become more established in terms of general agreement are the tendencies for source words to display structural (graphemic and phonemic) similarity [Kelly 1998;Gries 2004a;Fábregas & Scalise 2012], the categorical difference between blends and complex clipping [Bat-El 2006;Gries 2012;Arndt-Lappe & Plag 2013;Beliaeva 2014], and the distinction between speech error blends arising from conflicting lexical activation and word formation blends that are the result of intentional lexical processes 1 [Gries 2012].…”

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Gold Punning: studying multistable meaning structures using a systematically collected set of lexical blends

Kjellander¹

2018

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The role of prosodic structure in the formation of English blends

The role of prosodic structure in the formation of English blends

Altitude, négritude, bravitude ou la résurgence d’une suffixation

Gold Punning: studying multistable meaning structures using a systematically collected set of lexical blends

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