What type of word stress is English word stress?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 497.

A special analysis of English stress was made by Torsuev . He worked out the typology of accentual structure. He distinguishes more then 100 stress patterns, which form 11main types.

He classifies them according to the number of stressed syllables, their degree or character (the main and the secondary stress). Accentual types and accentual structures are closely connected with the morphological type of words, with the number of syllables, the semantic value of the root and the prefix of the word.

The accentual types are:

1. / ┴ ─ /. (74%)This accentual type marks both simple and compound words. The accentual structures of this type may include two and more syllables, e.g. 'fafher, 'possibly, 'mother-in-law, 'gas-pipe.

2. / ┴ ┴ /. (20%) The accentual type is commonly realized in compound words, most of them are with separable prefixes, e.g. 'radio-'active, 're'write, 'diso'bey.

3. / ┴ ┴ ┴ / and 4. / ┴ ┴ ┴ ┴ /. The accentual types are met in initial compound abbreviations like 'U'S'A, 'U'S'S'R.

4. / ┴ ┬ ─ /. The type is realized both in simple and compound words, very

common among compound words, e.g. 'hair-,dresser, 'substructure.

5. / ┬ ┴ ─/. (3%) The accentual type marks a great number of simple words and some compound words as well. In simple words the stresses fall onto:

1. the prefix and the root: maga'zine;

2. the root and the suffix: ,hospi'tality;

3. the prefix and the suffix: disorganization.