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Date: 15-Dec-2005
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Principles of English Stress: Burzio 

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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:47:36
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Principles of English Stress: Burzio 

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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:48:14
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Principles of English Stress: Burzio 

Title: Principles of English Stress 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 72  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521023801 

Author: Luigi Burzio, Johns Hopkins University

Paperback: ISBN: 0521023807 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 30.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521023807 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 53.00

Abstract:

Luigi Burzio's Principles of English Stress challenges many of the
assumptions that have underpinned the generative description of English
stress and more generally 'standard' metrical theory. Central to Burzio's
analysis is a novel typology of metrical constituents that includes ternary
feet and excludes monosyllabic feet. The analysis is essentially
nonderivational in character: principles of well-formedness check for the
presence of stress and weight in the output. The principles themselves are
organized into a hierarchy consisting of a hardcore-controlling foot form
that in cases of conflict may override principles of metrical consistency
and alignment of edges. The interplay among these competing principles
accounts for the cyclic effects of the standard theory. A special role is
accorded phonetically null syllables that analyse hidden metrical structure
to preserve a simple foot inventory and sharply curtail the standard
theory's extrametricality.

"The ideas explored in Principles of English Stress are highly original,
the analysis is remarkably comprehensive, the arguments are lucidly
presented and will surely prompt a serious reconsideration of many central
tenets of metrical stress theory."   Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology 

1. General introduction
Part I. The Stress of Undesired Items: 
2. Null vowels and extrametricality
3. The stress pattern of English
4. Stress without destressing and vowel reduction
5. Stress and vowel length
Part II: Stress and Word Formation: 
6. Weak preservation
7. The range of stress 'placing' suffixes
8. Strong preservation
9. The range of neutral suffixes
10. Extensions and refinements 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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