A Re-Examination of 'Normal Stress'

'Normal stress'-a notion frequently encountered in phonology and, especially, syntax-has never been adequately defined. Linguists have apparently made a tacit assumption that the stress in citations elicited from an informant is the same as the stress used by a speaker making a minimum of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Language (Baltimore) 1974-03, Vol.50 (1), p.66-73
1. Verfasser: Schmerling, Susan F.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:'Normal stress'-a notion frequently encountered in phonology and, especially, syntax-has never been adequately defined. Linguists have apparently made a tacit assumption that the stress in citations elicited from an informant is the same as the stress used by a speaker making a minimum of special assumptions; but this is shown to be false. It is argued that 'normal stress', a notion inherited from structuralist linguistics, was required by assumptions inconsistent with those of the generative framework; and that this notion, even if it can be defined so as to be consistent with generative assumptions, is not a particularly useful one.
ISSN:0097-8507
1535-0665
DOI:10.2307/412010