Disyllables and Syllable Weight

Quentin Dabouis (1) , Jean-Michel Fournier (1)

1 LLL - Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique

A corpus based assessment of the effect of syllable weight on the stress of English disyllables, with special attention to disyllabic verbs. Syllable weight proves to be a highly inefficient parameter.

Mots clés: English; stress; disyllables; morphology; syllable weight

Domaines: Linguistique

Quentin Dabouis, Jean-Michel Fournier. Disyllables and Syllable Weight. Colloque international PAC 2015: "Variation, change and spoken corpora: advances in the phonology and phonetics of contemporary English", Apr 2015, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-01346776⟩