TY  - BOOK
AB  - Traditional approaches have regarded German stress to
be predictable by localizing the initial stem syllable.
Later, Metrical Phonology localized German stress close
to the right edge of the stem, depending on the syllable
weight. It will be shown that an algorithm based on a
polytomous scale of syllable weight rather than a
dichotomous one (heavy - light) is well able to predict
German lexical stress. However, within the word class of
proper names the algorithm fails. Here speakers of
German appear to place stress on the left rather than the
right edge of the stem. A closer look at the phenomena
shows that this is not due to a preference of initial stress in historically older proper names but rather a rhythmic preference for trochees and dactyls. This appears to be evidence for a diachronic process where the influence of syllable weight has increased and become more
important than a specific rhythmic pattern. This quantity
sensitivity has not yet reached the peak of its influence in the diachronically older proper names.
DA  - 2003
LA  - eng
PY  - 2003
TI  - Improving automatic prediction of German lexical stress
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-19170242
Y2  - 2024-11-23T13:45:44
ER  -