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On the placement of accent in dialogue: A feature of context grammar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Richard Gunter
Richard Gunter
Affiliation:
English Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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It is well known that an English sentence may have its accent, or point of greatest prominence, on any of several syllables. This phenomenon has been called SHIFT.1 It is the feature of English that permits us to render such a sentence as The man can see the boy in a variety of ways, as follows:

The man can see the Boy.

The man can SEE the boy.

The man CAN see the boy.

The MAN can see the boy.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , October 1966 , pp. 159 - 179
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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