Stress Assignment in Italian Loanwords in English and its Impact on the Stressing of Foreign Words by Native English Speakers

Italian loanwords in English are stressed according to their original Italian stress patterns in structures. The lack of autonomy of the English stress system, which is only rendered by few stress variants, demonstrates that English faithfully reproduces the phonological properties of Italian stress...

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Main Author: Pierre Fournier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2018-06-01
Series:Corela
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/5113
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