The morphology and phonology of English noun-verb stress doublets : base-driven lexical stratification, prefixes and nominalisation

In this thesis I analyse the English ‘stress doublets’ - bisyllabic words which are nouns with initial primary stress, and verbs with final primary stress - in a model of lexical phonology with base-driven stratification (BDLP; Giegerich 1999). The work has two main aims: to give a detailed explorat...

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Main Author: Hurrell, Esther
Published: University of Edinburgh 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.652751