Aaron Seiler

Predicting stress in English verbs – analogy, morphology, and the level of abstraction of phonological patterns

Stress position in English words is well-known to be influenced by phonological, morphological, and (morpho)syntactic factors (esp. verbs vs. nouns). All these influences, however, are far from categorical, and very often stress varies from one word to another in a seemingly unpredictable manner. What is more, rece...