Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix?
Within the framework introduced by Guierre (1979), this paper challenges the commonly accepted classification of the adjectival suffix -al as a strong suffix through the study of a corpus of pronouncing dictionary data enriched with additional information from other sources such as the Oxford Englis...
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| description | Within the framework introduced by Guierre (1979), this paper challenges the commonly accepted classification of the adjectival suffix -al as a strong suffix through the study of a corpus of pronouncing dictionary data enriched with additional information from other sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary. After a review of the disparities between different analyses and classifications of that suffix in the literature, it is shown that most descriptions previously proposed are problematic. We do find -al in strong endings triggering a direct computation of stress placement, but only in certain specific subclasses. A number of sets ending in -al are highly regular, but -al by itself (i.e. when it is not associated with certain elements preceding it) does not trigger direct computation systematically. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e61c3eea449944ce96dbb22e1d496dee2024-02-14T09:08:09ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662110.4000/anglophonia.754Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix?Quentin DabouisWithin the framework introduced by Guierre (1979), this paper challenges the commonly accepted classification of the adjectival suffix -al as a strong suffix through the study of a corpus of pronouncing dictionary data enriched with additional information from other sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary. After a review of the disparities between different analyses and classifications of that suffix in the literature, it is shown that most descriptions previously proposed are problematic. We do find -al in strong endings triggering a direct computation of stress placement, but only in certain specific subclasses. A number of sets ending in -al are highly regular, but -al by itself (i.e. when it is not associated with certain elements preceding it) does not trigger direct computation systematically.https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/754corpus studyEnglish stressphonologymorphologysuffixation |
| spellingShingle | Quentin Dabouis Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix? Anglophonia corpus study English stress phonology morphology suffixation |
| title | Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix? |
| title_full | Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix? |
| title_fullStr | Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix? |
| title_short | Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix? |
| title_sort | is the adjectival suffix al a strong suffix |
| topic | corpus study English stress phonology morphology suffixation |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/754 |
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