Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. List of Appendixes xi
6. List of Contributors xii
7. List of Abbreviations xiv
8. Introduction: Theories, Data and Variation in English Word Stress 1
9. 1 On the Treatment of English Word Stress within the Generative Tradition: History, Concepts and Debates 6
10. 2 English Word Stress and the Guierrian School 53
11. 3 Stress Placement in Etymologically Prefixed Disyllabic Noun–Verb Pairs Revisited: A Semantic and Diachronic Approach 83
12. 4 English Phonology and the Literate Speaker: Some Implications for Lexical Stress 117
13. 5 The Stress Patterns of English Verbs: Syllable Weight and Morphology 154
14. 6 Lexical Stress in Varieties of Australian English: A Corpus-Based Exploration 192
15. 7 Melodic Complexity and Lexical Stress in Singapore English: An Experimental Study 240
16. 8 Input Optimization and Lexical Stress in English 264
17. 9 A Solution to Theoretical Shortcomings in the Stress Assignment of Words in English 288
18. Index 325