English word accentuation tendencies.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 1233.

Factors that influence the position of the stress. Recessive tendency. On the initial syllables in nouns, adjectives and verbs derived from them, or on the root syllable of words which belong to other parts of speech, which have prefix that lost its referential meaning. Due to this tendency there are: unrestricted recessive tendency falls on the 1^st syllable of words if it is not a prefix which has lost its referential meaning. Restricted recessive stress falls on the root of words with prefixes which have lost its referential meaning (among, before, forget.). Rhythmic tendency. Alternating stress and unstressed syllables in multysyllable words. This tendency led to the appearance of multysyllable words with several stresses. It is originated from the fact that native E. words are short. Retentive tendency. Stress in derivatives falls on the same syllable on which it falls in the original word. (e.g.: person-personal). It led to the appearance of the secondary stress (e.g.: personal-personality). Semantic tendency. A specific character of EL that there are certain categories of words to which belong mostly compound words which consist of equally semantically meaningful. (e.g.: absent-minded). Also here belong words with prefixes with referential meaning. Numerals with ‘-teen' have 2 stresses. Single-stress words with 2 roots: bathroom, shop-girl.