Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI:10.2478/rela-2019-0001

Paula Orzechowska, Janina Mołczanow, M. Jankowski

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract 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.

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英语韵律条件音节结构

摘要本文研究了英语这种具有词汇重音和大量辅音集群的语言中韵律结构和语音语音复杂性之间的相互作用。对基于词典和语料库的多音节词表进行分析，得出两个主要结论。首先，有一种倾向，即主动音节吸引重音，而不主动音节排斥重音。其次，重读音节比非重读音节包含更多的辅音簇。此外，主重音离主音节越远，非重读音节包含复杂开头的可能性就越小。这一发现表明，一个位置允许复杂发作的能力与其与韵律头的距离有关。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.