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P&P 6-10 Flashcards

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Types of airstream mechanism

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  1. pulmonic (egressive, ingressive)
  2. glottalic (ejectives, implosives)
  3. velaric (clicks - only ingressive)
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Glottal airstream

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can be egressive (ejective) or ingressive (implosive) - movement of glottis up or down changes pressure in oral cavity - pushes air out or causes air to be sucked in.

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Ejective

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vocal folds together and moving upward

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Implosive

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closed vocal folds moving down, usually nearly closed moving down with regular vibrations or creaky voice (can have voiceless diacritic)

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Steps of glottal egressive velar stop k’ e.g. occasionally when saying words like “bike”

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  1. velar closure and glottis closure happen same time
  2. closed glottis is raised
  3. body of air in pharynx is compressed
  4. back of tongue is lowered, releasing compressed air,
  5. glottal closure is released
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Steps of bilabial implosive e.g. in Sindhi

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  1. closure of lips
  2. downward movement of vibrating glottis (continues to flow air - leaky)
  3. little change in pressure of oral tract
  4. lips come apart
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Steps for dental click

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  1. velar closure and front closure
  2. body of tongue moves down while other closures maintained, decreasing pressure in front
  3. tongue tip lowered so air rushes in
  4. velar closure released
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4 states of the glottis

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  1. voiced
  2. voicelessness
  3. murmur
  4. creaky voice
  5. whisper
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Voiceless phonation

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apart not vibrating - wide opening of glottis

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Voice (modal)

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normal vocal vibration along most of the length of the glottis

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Murmur (breathy voice)

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Normal cord vibration accompanied by continuous turbulent airflow - vibrating while never fully together

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Creaky

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Vocal folds held tightly together (posterior) but vibrating anteriorly - low frequency of vibration

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Whisper

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greater constriction than voicelessness - adapting the vocal cords while maintaining the opening of the glottis

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Falsetto

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vocal cords are stretch longitudinally so they become thin in cross-section

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Aspiration (glottis action)

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vocal folds apart during release of an articulation

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Types of stops in Hindi

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  1. Voiceless unaspirated [p]
  2. voiceless aspirated [pʰ]
  3. voiced [b]
  4. breathy voiced [bʱ]
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Breathy voiced

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occasionally called aspirated - really means there is a period of breathy voicing or murmur before the regular voicing starts

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Other types of sounds not in English

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  1. bilabial fricatives
  2. linguo-labials (tongue touches upper lip)
  3. labiodental stops
  4. labiodental nasal (except allophonic)
  5. dental stop (except allophonic)
  6. retroflex stops
  7. alveolo palatal
  8. palatal voiceless e.g. ich bin nicht or nasals e.g. se/ɲ/or (spanish)
  9. velar fricatives [x]
  10. uvular e.g. French voiced uvular fricative
  11. pharyngeal fricatives
  12. labial velar stops/nasals
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Labiodental nasals in English

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[ɱ] may occur where /m/ before /f/ – as in emphasis or symphony

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palato-alveolar

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target on upper surface of the mouth is about the same as retroflex (margin of alveolar and palate) but tongue is domed, not hollowed (sh)

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apical vs laminal

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tip of the tongue (am)
blade (lam)

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alveolo-palatals

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Polish and Chinese fricatives similar to sh, but with raising of the front of the tongue

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sibilant sounds

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fricatives s, z, sh, sz - more acoustic energy (loudness) than others

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trills

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trill - [r]

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tap vs flap

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both caused by single contraction so one articulator thrown against another
tap - tip of tongue contacts dental/alveolar
flap - tip of tongue retroflex then strikes roof in post-alveolar region

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sufficient perceptual separation

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force acting on a language so that sounds are kept acoustically distinct to make it easier for listeners to distinguish

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features of vowel quality

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  1. height (F1 freq)
  2. backness (F2 and F1)
  3. rhotacisation
  4. rounding
  5. ATR - width of pharynx
  6. nasalisation
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secondary articulation

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gesture with a lesser degree of closure occurring at roughly the same time as the primary gesture e.g. palatalisation, velarisation, pharyngealisation, labialisation

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palatalisation vs velarisation

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raising of front of tongue or back e.g. /k/ey or dark l

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pharyngealisation

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retracting the root of the tongue e.g. in dark l

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labialisation

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rounding of the lips in e.g. coo

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32
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syllabification

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the process of breaking words into syllables

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σ (sigma sign)

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Used to show syllable

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What parts need to be in a syllable

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Must have a nucleus. Onset and coda are optional - can have more than one onset or coda

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Nucleus

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highest sonority part of the syllable - almost always the vowel

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Phonotactic constraints

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language-specific rules that tell you what sequences of consonants are allowed

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Phonotactic principles (4)

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  1. Maximal onset principle
  2. Sonority sequencing principle
  3. stressed syllables are heavy
  4. onset, coda, and
    rime structure rules
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Maximal onset principle

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Intervocalic consonants (i.e. V_V) are maximally assigned to the onset. - if in doubt, give to an onset as long as allowed - therefore CV is more universal syllable than VC

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Evidence for maximal onset principle

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  1. Children say CV first e.g. “ma”
  2. More options for onsets
  3. codas less stable (e.g. may lose - fishing –> fishin’)
40
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What is the longest onset possible ?(English)

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s + consonant + approximant

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Onset structures

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  1. pre-initial (only s)
  2. initial (any)
  3. post-initial (sonorants)
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Coda structures

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  1. pre-final (sonorants or s)
  2. final (any)
  3. post-final (coronals - t, s, sths)
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Rime structures (nucleus and coda)

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2μ vowel N can have C with max 1 non-coronal consonant (therefore cannot have e.g. hailp, but haisp or help legal)

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Sonority sequencing principle

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Syllable structure based on sonority: Nucleus constitutes sonority peak followed by consonant sequence with progressively decreasing sonority values (Therefore should look like a 1-side or 2-side pyramid with nucleus at the top, no ticks)

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Sonority scale

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Scale indicating sonority values

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Order of sonority in the sonority scale

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  1. Vowels (low - mid - high)
  2. semi-vowels (w, j)
  3. approximants
  4. nasals
  5. obstruents (fricatives then affricates then stops) (voiced - voiceless)
47
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Exception to the sonority sequencing principle

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the /s/ sound is allowed to violate the sonority sequencing principle e.g. where onset maximal principle in play e.g. /ekstra/ (extra)

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Sonorants

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natural class that may be a nucleus: vowels, semivowels, approximants and nasals e.g. bottle, button

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Open vs Closed syllables

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closed (has coda)
open (no coda)

50
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Syllable weight

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determined by how many morae a syllable has (μ)

51
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Mora values of syllable components

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Onset - perhaps 0
Coda - 1μ
Short vowel - 1 μ
Diphthong - 2 μ

52
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Heavy syllable

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One that has branching in the nucleus (i.e. diphthong, long) or in the rime (i.e. nucleus + coda) – therefore should have 2μ (Note BAO defines as >1 segment in rime)

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Super-heavy syllable

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has branching in nucleus and rime, so should have 3μ

54
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Stress and weight

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We assume that all stressed syllables are heavy - as such, if we see a light syllable that is stressed - we can attach the following consonant to it and form a coda e.g. phonology, swallow to form both

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geminates

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long consonants or vowels that can be analysed as doubles e.g. tsukatte - only happen across word boundaries in English or with two morphemes e.g. guileless

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ambisyllabic

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quality of consonant when attached to both coda of preceding and onset of following syllables

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Acoustic properties of stress

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  1. energy - louder
  2. duration - longer
  3. pitch - higher
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Tone systems

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  1. level tones (high and low)
  2. Contour tone (rising and falling)
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Tone sandhi

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changes of tone due to influence of one tone on another e.g. in ni3 hao3

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Declination

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In most languages, general downward trend of pitch over a syntactic unit e.g. sentence

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Possible timing of languages

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  1. Mora-timing (e.g. Japanese)
  2. Syllable-timing (Romance languages e.g. spanish)
  3. stressed time (e.g. E) – timing indicated by PVI
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Isochrony

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regular timing of units of time e.g. mora

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PVI

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index measuring differences between vowel durations - if high PVI then big difference but if all vowels equal then close to 0

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Is stress in English phonemic?

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Yes, it can be in cases e.g. abstract (noun vs verb)

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Prosodic hierarchy and word stress

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prosodic word level > foot > syllable > mora. (word stress takes place at prosodic word level and feet)

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Foot

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timing unit in English - a stretch of phonetic material - may begin at the onset of a stressed syllable and ends at the onset of the next stressed syllable

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Metrical parameters

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  1. Foot type: bounded or unbounded
  2. Headedness: L/R
  3. Directionality: L-R?
  4. extrametricality
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Foot type: bounded vs unbounded

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bounded feet can contain a maximum of two (binary) or three (ternary) syllables. An unbounded foot can contain an indefinite number of syllables.

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Foot headedness: where is S?

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  1. trochaic (sw)
  2. iambic (ws)
  3. dactyl (sww)
  4. anapest (wws)
  5. amphibrach (wsw)
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dactyl headedness

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S W W - stupidly, marinate, broccoli

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anapaest headedness

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W W S - unaware, in the air, unconcerned, unafraid

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amphibrach headedness

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W S W - relation

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Trochee typology (what kind of syllable patterns permitted)

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H, HL, LL (no LH or HH as H can be lone foot)

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Iambic typology (kind of syllable patterns permitted)

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H, LH, LL (no HL or HH)

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Directionality of feet

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When determining feet, do we use right-to left or left-to-right construction?

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Extrametricality

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A particular segment or prosodic unit of a word may be ignored for the purposes of determining the stress structure of the word. (kept out of the feet - e.g. last syllable of nouns and last consonant of adjectives and verbs)

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Word stress rule: penultimate or antepenultimate

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At word level, when determining stress - if penultimate syllable is heavy, stress it e.g. potato. If not, stress syllable before e.g. America

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ENGLISH word procedure for metricality

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  1. apply extrametricality rule
  2. mark each syllable with *
  3. on syllable level, construct L-headed feet from R-L
  4. On level of foot, construct unbounded, R-headed constituent
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Other stress rules

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  1. Nuclear stress rule - (stress B in AB)
  2. If B right-branching, stress B, otherwise stress A ([AB]C - greenhouse effect, A[BC] - office filing cabinet
80
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Stress shift

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Shift of stress in comparison to a default position commonly identified as the position of stress in isolated words e.g. thirtEEN –> THIRteen MEN

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Types of stress shift

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  1. stress retraction
  2. iambic reversal
  3. trochaic reversal
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Stress retraction

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leftward shift of stress in adjectival compounds (weak strong), etc. e.g. thirTEEN - THIRteen MEN – resolution of stress clash (two primary stresses adjacent). Note the prominence of the second syllable is crucial

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Stress clash

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stress will be shifted in cases where two prominent or primary stresses occur too close to each other i.e. not separated by a stressed syllable of lesser degree of prominence.

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Iambic reversal

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leftward shift of stress compared to default iamb - in this case, unlike stress retraction it is optional (not obligatory) - can be used as a rhetorical device - usually

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