Distribution of Syllable Structures of the Base and Stress Patterns: Description and Theoretical Prediction

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520549
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: ZAMMA Hideki 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20316029)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 英語 / 音韻論 / 強勢 / 接尾辞 / 最適性理論 / 類型順序 / 計量調査

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study first made a simulation on possible combinations between stress patterns of derived words, on the one hand, and stress and syllable structures of the base, on the other, to obtain implicational orders (or T-orders) among these combinations, which are thought to be hidden in the English lexicon. Subsequently an overwhelming research of the above-mentioned properties were conducted over 28,400 English words, utilizing the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (CD-ROM). Finally considerations were made as to whether the distributions of these implications can be properly captured in actual distributions, within the framework of Optimality Theory.

Free Research Field

英語の強勢と接尾辞