On the Phonology and Semantics of Deaccentuation

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ID19572811
AuthorsNaomi Tachikawa Shapiro (University of Washington), Arto Anttila (0000-0002-7353-2265, Stanford University)
Year2021
Volume9
Publication date2021-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2377-3324 • E-ISSN: 2377-3324
PublisherLinguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3765/amp.v9i0.4931
OpenAlexW3159225107
LanguageEN
References cited9

The deaccentuation of given and/or repeated elements is familiar from many dialects of English. We propose that deaccentuation is essentially an optional postlexical phonological process of stress retraction triggered by two constraints: *Stress-Copy, which assigns a violation to a stress peak on a word with a segmentally identical copy in the left context, and Rightmost, which assigns a violation to every word between a stress peak and the right phrase edge. We quantify deaccentuation by defining it as being perceived with less stress than expected, where expected stress is calculated by an implementation of Liberman and Prince's (1977) phrasal stress algorithm. We provide empirical evidence for our analysis based on the first inaugurals of six former U.S. presidents

Linguistics · Natural language processing · Optimality theory · Phonology · Phrase · Programming language · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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