Adrian Buck’s Reviews > Background to English Pronunciation > Status Update
Adrian Buck
is on page 212 of 301
"English word stress has many rules, subrules and exceptions" pg 210. I disagree, how about English has a regular stress pattern that its speakers try to impose on it, this is most obviously seen in the weak and stong forms of the most commonly used words. However, collocation both of words and syllables create constrains the imposing of this patterns. The most successful imposition of this pattern is called poetry.
— Feb 14, 2013 01:15AM
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Adrian Buck
is on page 276 of 301
"A tonic is dislocated if it is not where the rules of neutral tonic-placement would placement". Yes, well, this rule and all exceptions/subrules can be replaced with the principle that English tries to place the tonic on the new information provided in the utterance.
— Feb 24, 2013 10:56AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 242 of 301
"Hpwever, advanced learners (as well as native speakers) are generally able to place the stress correctly on words they have never prononced before. Obviously they possess some knowledge which enables them to do so" pg 210. As I native speaker I suggest this knowledge is not of rules.
— Feb 19, 2013 10:53AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 185 of 301
"It is therefore important to provide learners with tools to predict the pronunciation of a written word" pg 149. It is also important to provide teachers with evidence of how successful these 'predictions' are likely to be.
— Feb 07, 2013 02:08AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 148 of 301
Problems with organisation, "The 'r' exerts its influence even when it is silent: it may be regarded as an "underlying" element". it would have be a good idea to introduce the concept of morpheme here, without it it is difficult to follow the discussion. Similarly the distinction between weak and full forms of the same vowel is not adequately developed, why not just treat them as distinct vowel sounds?
— Feb 01, 2013 11:26PM
Adrian Buck
is on page 125 of 301
Its good to see some observations I'd made about the similarities between English and Hungarian confirmed. My biggest difference with Nádasdy is over his judgements of when these differences are exceptable and when not: 'fók' is not OK for 'fork', but 'nó' is OK for 'no'.
— Jan 04, 2013 01:52AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 112 of 301
I was actually enjoying this one, but put it down to read soemthing more urgent. First ed-lang book of the new year.
— Dec 09, 2012 03:34AM
