An account of Old English stress

An account of Old English stress

An analysis of stress patterns in Old English, from the perspective of a framework based on lexicalist metrical phonology, indicates that there was a central Old English stress rule that operated from left-to-right, in contrast to to the central rule for present day English. (46 references) (Author/...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of linguistics 1990-09, Vol.26 (2), p.315-339
Hauptverfasser: McCully, C. B., Hogg, R. M.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Consonants
Derivational morphology
Descriptive studies and applied theories
English language
Language Patterns
Language Planning
Lexical stress
Linguistics
Nouns
Old English
Philology
Phonological stress
Phonology
Poetic feet
Stress
Stress (Phonology)
Syllables
Uncommonly Taught Languages
Vowels
Words
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Zusammenfassung:An analysis of stress patterns in Old English, from the perspective of a framework based on lexicalist metrical phonology, indicates that there was a central Old English stress rule that operated from left-to-right, in contrast to to the central rule for present day English. (46 references) (Author/CB)
ISSN:0022-2267
1469-7742
DOI:10.1017/S0022226700014699