2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Descriptive Study of Classhood and Accentuation of English Suffixes and an Analysis within Partial Ordering Theory
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21520513
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
ZAMMA Hideki 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (20316029)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 英語 / 音韻論 / 接尾辞 / 強勢 / 語形勢 / 最適性理論 / 部分配列理論 / 計量調査 |
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| Research Abstract |
The present study first conducted an overwhelming research of English suffixes about their properties of stress preservation and root-attachability, utilizing the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary(CD-ROM). Combining the results with those obtained from the author's previous study about stress placement behavior of the suffixes, considerations were made as to how English suffixes were distributed in its lexicon with respect to the classhood. It is further considered how well the distribution can be predicted from Partial Ordering Theory.
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