The Rules of Stress in English Verse

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2885097
AutoresJoseph C Beaver (autor de correspondencia)
Año1971
Volumen47
Número3
Páginas586
Fecha de publicación1971-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/412379
OpenAlexW2326073526
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas2

Rules of stress like those described by Chomsky & Halle 1968 are examined for their relevance in determining metricality (using Halle & Keyser's [1966] stress maximum concept) over the period of modern English. The Nuclear Stress Rule frequently locates stress maxima in unmetrical positions, and the Compound Rule occasionally does. A late, optional rule is proposed—the Stress Exchange Rule—which reverses unmetrical alignments resulting from earlier rules. An Alternating Stress Rule is also proposed, to account for non-lexical stress. Thus stress maxima are created in different ways. The possible rule combinations (lexical, phrasal; obligatory, optional) discriminate degrees of metricality, and provide stylistic parameters

Linguistics · Stress (linguistics) · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation