Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-w79xw Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-18T00:05:49.971Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Re-defining English accent and stress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Wiktor Jassem  and
Dafydd Gibbon
Wiktor Jassem
Affiliation:
(Acoustic Phonetics Research Unit, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Dafydd Gibbon
Affiliation:
(University of Bielefeld/University of Göttingen)
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In a well-known introductory text on linguistics, Langacker maintained (1968: 161), expressing a widely held view:

Linguists do not fully understand just what constitutes stress. The best we can say is that stressed vowels are apparently different from unstressed ones in that they are of greater length, higher pitch and greater articulatory force.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 10 , Issue 1-2 , June 1980 , pp. 2 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1980

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bierwisch, M. (1966). ‘Regeln für die Intonation deutscher Sätze’, in Studia Grammatica, 7, 99–201.Google Scholar
Bolinger, D. L. (1961). ‘Contrastive accent and contrastive stress’, in Language, 37, 83–96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bolinger, D. L., and Gerstman, L. J. (1957). ‘Disjuncture as a cue to constructs’, in Word, 13, 246–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bresnan, J. (1971). ‘Sentence stress and syntactic transformations’, in Language, 47, 257–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, W. S. Jr, and McGlone, R. E. (1974). ‘Aerodynamic and acoustic study of stress in sentence productions’, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 56, 971–4.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chomsky, N., Halle, M., and Lukoff, F. (1956). ‘On accent and juncture in English’, in Halle, M., Lunt, H., and McLean, H. (edd.) (1956). For Roman Jakdbson. The Hague: Mouton, 65–80.Google Scholar
Chomsky, N., and Halle, M. (1968). The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper and Row.Google Scholar
Crystal, D. (1969). Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English. Cambridge: CUP.Google Scholar
Esser, J. (1975). Intonationszeichen im Englischen. Tübingen: Niemeyer.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fry, D. B. (1955). ‘Duration and intensity as physical correlates of linguistic stress’ in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 765–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fry, D. B. (1958). ‘Experiments in the perception of stress’, in Language and Speech, 1, 126–52.Google Scholar
Fry, D. B. (1965). ‘The dependence of stress judgements on vowel formant structure’, in Proc. 5th Congr. Phon. Sci., Münster 1964. Basel: Karger, 306–11.Google Scholar
Fuchs, A. (1975). ‘“Normaler” und “kontrastiver” Akzent’, in Lingua, 38, 293–312.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gibbon, D. (1976). Perspectives of Intonation Analysis. Bern: Lang.Google Scholar
Gibbon, D. (1978). ‘Metalocutions, structural types and functional variation’, in Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 13 (in press).Google Scholar
Gibbon, D. (in press). ‘A new look at intonation syntax and semantics’, in James, A., and Westney, P. (edd.), New Linguistic Impulses in Foreign Language Teaching. Tübingen: Narr.Google Scholar
Gimson, A. C. (1956). ‘The linguistic relevance of stress in English’, in Zeitschrift für Phonetik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 9, 143–9.Google Scholar
Goldsmith, J. A. (1976). Autosegmental Phonology. Ph.D. Diss., MIT.Google Scholar
Halliday, M. A. K. (1970). A Course in Spoken English: Intonation. London: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Huckin, T. N. (1977). An Integrated Theory of English Intonation. Ph.D. Diss., University of Washington.Google Scholar
Jassem, W. (1952). ‘Stress in Modern English’, in Bulletin de la Société Linguistique Polonaise, 11, 23–49Google Scholar
Jassem, W. (1952a). Intonation of Conversational English (Educated Southern British), Travaux de la Société des Sciences et des Lettres de Wroclaw, Series A, No. 45, Wroclaw.Google Scholar
Jassem, W. (1978). ‘On the distributional analysis of pitch phenomena’, in Language and Speech, 21, 362–72.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jones, D. (1950). The Phoneme, its Nature and Use. Cambridge: Heffner & Sons Ltd.Google Scholar
Kenyon, J. S., and Knott, T. A. (1944). A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English. Springfield: Merriam.Google Scholar
Kingdon, R. (1958). The Groundwork of English Stress. London: Longmans, Green & Co.Google Scholar
Ladd, D. R. (1978). The Structure of Intonational Meaning. Ph.D. Diss., Cornell University.Google Scholar
Ladefoged, P., Draper, M. H., and Whitteridge, D. (1958). ‘Syllables and stress’, in Miscellanea Phonetica, 3, 1–14.Google Scholar
Langacker, R. W. (1968). Language and its Structure. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.Google Scholar
Leben, W. R. (1973). Suprasegmental Phonology. Ph.D. Diss., MIT.Google Scholar
Lehiste, I. (1970). Suprasegmentals. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Lehiste, I. (1979). ‘Temporal relations within speech units. Moderator's Introduction’, in Symposium No. 5, Proceedings of the 9th Congr. Pho. Sci., Copenhagen, 1979, vol. 2, 241–4.Google Scholar
Liberman, M. Y. (1975). The Intonational System of English. Ph.D. Diss., MIT.Google Scholar
Newman, S. S. (1946). ‘On the stress system of English’, in Word, 2, 171–87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
O'Connor, J. D., and Arnold, G. F. (1973). Intonation of Colloquial English, 2nd ed.London: Longman.Google Scholar
MacCarthy, P. A. D. (1944). English Pronunciation, 3rd ed.Cambridge: Heffer.Google Scholar
Mol, H., and Uhlenbeck, E. M. (1956). ‘The linguistic relevance of intensity in stress’, in Lingua, 2, 205–13.Google Scholar
Morton, J., and Jassem, W. (1965). ‘Acoustic correlates of stress’, in Language and Speech, 8, 148–58.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pike, K. L. (1943). Phonetics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pike, K. L. (1945). The Intonation of American English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.Google Scholar