Compound stress assignment by analogy: the constituent family bias

This paper tests the hypothesis that stress assignment to English compounds works on the basis of analogy. In particular, the role of the constituent family, i.e. the set of compounds that share the same right or left constituent with a given compound, is investigated. On the basis of large amounts...

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Main Author: Plag Ingo
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: De Gruyter 2010-11-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsw.2010.009