An Essay On Stress

An Essay On Stress - Current Studies in Linguistics

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Publisher's Synopsis

An Essay on Stress presents a universal theory for the characterization of the stress patterns of words and phrases encountered in the languages of the world. The heart of the theory is constituted by the formal mechanism for characterizing "action at a distance", which is a special case of the formalism needed for the construction of constituent structure.

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ISBN: 9780262581059
Publisher: The MIT Press
Imprint: The MIT Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 280
Weight: 446g
Height: 228mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 16mm