[Lexicog] Digest Number 112

[Karen Chung]

"Ron Moe" <ron_moe at sil.org> wrote:

...I will grant your point that mother tongue
> speakers already know what the tone of a word is and don't need it marked.
> The same could be said of English stress, yet most dictionaries mark it. I
> will admit that I never look at the stress except perhaps upon the rare
> occassion where there is a dialectal difference. I guess I lean toward
> including this kind of information on the chance that some user does need
> it.

	You never look at the stress of an English word except when there's a
dialectal difference? I'm a native speaker of English, but that's often
the one thing I've needed to look up a word for, when running into words
like _concomitant_, _pharmacopoeia_, _polysemy_ and _cochineal_! And
there are confusing differences as to which syllable to stress in words
like _comparable_. It's also *definitely* information my EFL students in
Taiwan need. Tone is basic information that native speakers of Mandarin
Chinese include and need in their dictionaries. I agree that stress and
tone information *should* be included in dictionaries.

        Karen Steffen Chung
        http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/
        http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/


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