Re: USAGE: Stress in English
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 26, 2004, 6:13 |
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Trebor Jung wrote:
> "/"inv@lId/ (a sick person) vs. /in"v&lId/ (not valid)."
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> Mark's example qualifies for phonemic stress, however most other examples
> given of phonemic stress are not of any use: in H. S. Teoh's example, there
> is a difference in vowel _and_ stress, thus eliminating this word pair for
> minimal pair status.
Except that the vowel changes are (or at least, can be analyzed as)
being *derived* from the position of stress. In fact, it seems far
simpler to me to derive that /@/-/&/ alteration from stress than the
stress from that alteration.
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