The Syllable and the Foot : Summary - Speech Resource Pages

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words of two syllables ending in ate place the accent on -ate eg translate, dictate, debate. English word stress parameters: summary Adequate accounts of English word stress must recognise three relevant factors: 1. is largely trochaic (left-dominant) feet 2. is quantity-sensitive ie is influenced by the phonemic structure of the rhyme 3. is influenced by morphology There can also be: 1. Languages with iambic (right-dominant) feet. The w syllable leads: e.g. an American Indian language Seminole = w s w s, two iambic feet 2. Many quantity-insensitive languages. E.g., Warlpiri, an indigenous Australian language, takes no account of whether the rhyme is heavy or light in assigning stress 3. Languages like French in which morphology does not influence stress. Building a Prosodic Word Tree Here are two examples of how to build a prosodic word for the words 'Turramurra' and 'pedestrian'. Example 1: "Turramurra" (1) Begin by identifying whether there are any syllables that are schwa vowels, or which can reduce to schwa, because these have to be metrically weak: for this word, this applies to the second and fourth syllables. Confirm that the other syllables cannot reduce to schwa. If this is the case, they are likely to be metrically strong. We therefore have four syllables which are s w s w. (2) Join a foot node to each strong syllable. This gives:
(3) Associate any weak syllables with the foot that precedes them. As a result of this, we get two binary feet: (4) If there is more than one syllable, one of the feet has to marked strong, and the other(s) as weak. The foot that is marked strong is the one that dominates the primary stressed syllable (the third syllable in this example). So the first foot is weak. We therefore arrive at: (5) Join up the feet to form word tree. If there is an initial weak syllable (doesn't apply in this case, but it would in e.g. 'asparagus') join that to the word level. We therefore have the following with the transcription included:
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Page 7 and 8: The Rhyme The rhyme is the vowel pl
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