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New Perspectives on English Word Stress explores the mechanism of word stress assignment in contemporary English from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. Comprising nine chapters, these approaches include a historical overview of the study of stress; the relationship between historic changes in stress and meaning; the relationship between spelling and stress; syllable weight and stress; the theoretical treatment of exceptions; stress mechanisms in Australian English; and stress in Singapore English. The book presents new data and provides the reader with access to various approaches to English word stress in phonology.

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Eiji Yamada is Professor of English Linguistics at Fukuoka University, JapanAnne Przewozny is Professor of English Linguistics at Toulouse Jean-Jaur s University, FranceJean-Michel Fournier is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Tours, FranceNicolas Ballier is Professor of English Linguistics at Universit Paris Cit , France

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