SYLLABLE WEIGHT AND SECONDARY STRESS IN ENGLISH SUFFIXAL DERIVATIVES

Quentin Dabouis (1)

1 LLL - Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique

This paper investigates the relationship between syllable weight and secondary stress in a corpus of 1450 English suffixal derivatives. In order to do so, two definitions of syllable weight have been used to code the data and we evaluated whether syllable weight had any impact on stress preservation, as proposed by Pater (1995; 2000). The results indicate that syllable weight has no influence whatsoever on stress preservation, in both definitions of syllable weight under examination.

Mots clés: English; morphology; secondary stress; stress; morphophonology; phonology

Domaines: Linguistique

Quentin Dabouis. SYLLABLE WEIGHT AND SECONDARY STRESS IN ENGLISH SUFFIXAL DERIVATIVES. Journées d'étude internationales des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique, Mar 2016, Tours, France. ⟨hal-01379921⟩