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ERIC Number: EJ587972
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0883-2919
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Stress Variation in British and American English.
Berg, Thomas
World Englishes, v18 n2 p123-43 Jul 1999
Presents a comprehensive analysis of lexical-stress variation in British and American English. A comparison of the pronunciations of all 75,000 entries in a dictionary by John Wells (1990) yields 932 stress-divergent words. The list of words is appended. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dictionaries, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Variation, North American English, Pronunciation, Stress (Phonology)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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