Word Stress in French.

Walker, Douglas C.

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Publication Date: 1975

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Word Stress in French

Walker, Douglas C.

Language, 51, 4, 887-900, Dec 75

The phonological rule that assigns stress at the word level in Modern French is examined in an effort to show how a consideration of productivity, morphological relatedness, and grammatical conditioning motivates a phonetically determined stress rule for Modern French. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Generative Phonology, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Morphophonemics, Phonology, Suprasegmentals

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