PHY205 - PDE Suprasegmental Phonology I (Stress)
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 2012-07-02

This E-Lecture discusses the effect of stress in Present-Day English. After an overview of stress from a phonetic and phonological point of view, aspects such as lexical stress, shift stress and weaking are investigated and exemplified. Furthermore, the stress-timed character of PDE is compared with Italian, one of the best known syllable-timed language.