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- Title: Morphological Make-up As the Predictor of English Word Accent.
- Author : TESL Canada Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 183 KB
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Introduction Phoneticians have argued that English word stress is unpredictable. "There is no simple way of knowing which syllable or syllables in an English word must be stressed, but every time you learn another word you must be sure to learn how it is stressed" (O'Connor, 1967, p. 115). Gordon (1974) recommended a good dictionary as the simplest way to correct pronunciation as word accent is not that predictable. For years generative analysis of English phonology has afforded handy rules for stress placement (Birjandi & Salmani-Nodoushan, 2005; Chomsky & Halle, 1968; Dickerson, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1989; Dickerson & Finney, 1978). This article shows how morphological make-up can help to predict English word accent.