ENGLISH STRESS AND UNDERLYING REPRESENTATIONS

International audienceThis paper addresses the issue of underlying representations (URs) from a Guierrian perspective and the necessity of taking into account certain orthographic elements which are associated with phonological behaviours related to English stress. We propose that underlying vowels should be represented as abstract phonological objects and that the inclusion of orthographic consonant geminates and final mute into URs should be considered. Additionally, we argue that the phonology should have access to morphosyntactic information, which implies that the input to the phonology should be polystratal. Eventually, after arguing that vowel reduction should occur after stress assignment, we will report the results of studies on vowel reduction and " stress preservation " showing that reduction is not systematic in unstressed syllables and that non-reduction can, in some cases, be attributed to the existence of a full vowel in a morphologically-related word or to a high frequency of the latter

SYLLABLE WEIGHT AND SECONDARY STRESS IN ENGLISH SUFFIXAL DERIVATIVES

International audienceThis paper investigates the relationship between syllable weight and secondary stress in a corpus of 1450 English suffixal derivatives. In order to do so, two definitions of syllable weight have been used to code the data and we evaluated whether syllable weight had any impact on stress preservation, as proposed by Pater (1995; 2000). The results indicate that syllable weight has no influence whatsoever on stress preservation, in both definitions of syllable weight under examination

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LLL YOUNG RESEARCHERS CONFERENCE 1

International audienceThis publication gathers papers of the young linguistics researchers international conference which took place at the University François-Rabelais de Tours on the 26th and 27th of May 2014. These two days were organized by PhD students from the Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (UMR 7270 CNRS - BNF) and were focused on the articulation between data and theory.Ce recueil réunit les actes des journées d’étude internationales des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique s’étant tenues à l’Université François Rabelais de Tours les 26 et 27 mars 2014. Ces journées, organisées par les doctorants du Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (UMR 7270 CNRS – BNF), étaient consacrées à l’articulation entre données et théorie

Testing Parameters for Stress Placement: The Case of Dissyllabic Prefixed Verb/Noun Pairs

International audienceTesting out 4 parameters: relative frequency, date of appearance, reduced versus full vowels in the unstressed syllable, final syllable weigh

The English “Arab Rule” without feet

International audienceThis paper deals with English vowel reduction and focuses on what is generally referred to as the Arab Rule (Ross 1972 i.a.). Vowels tend to reduce if the preceding syllable is light, whereas they do not reduce if the preceding syllable is heavy. Our purpose is twofold: first, based on the scrutiny of Wells (2008), we evaluate the efficiency of the Arab Rule and show that is empirically verified. Second, we propose an analysis of blocking contexts couched within CVCV phonology (Lowenstamm 1996). We use two central notions such as Government and Licensing, and show that vowel reduction only applies to "governing-and-governable" vowels

Disyllables and Syllable Weight

International audienceA corpus based assessment of the effect of syllable weight on the stress of English disyllables, with special attention to disyllabic verbs. Syllable weight proves to be a highly inefficient parameter

Stress in Prefixed Disyllabic Verb/Noun Pairs

International audienceSummary of stress variation, data consistency between dictionaries, and detailed analysis of two parameters: frequency (from COCAE data) and vowel quality (full and/or reduced vowe

Multicategorial Prefixed Words Stress Behaviour: Variation and Frequency

International audienceIn-depth analysis of intra- and inter-dialectal variation, and of the role of word frequenc

English Phonology and the Literate Speaker: Some Implications for Lexical Stress

International audienc