English After RP by Geoff Lindsey
Author:Geoff Lindsey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030043575
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Part IV
Stress
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Geoff LindseyEnglish After RPhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04357-5_24
Chapter 23 The Love of Alternating Stress
Geoff Lindsey1
(1)Linguistics, University College London, London, UK
Geoff Lindsey
Keywords
StressAlternating stressShakespeareWeak syllables
In Brief
RP was relatively tolerant of words with sequences of weak syllables, such as applicable and hospitable, which were stressed on the first syllable. A number of these words are now heard with shifted stress, reducing the number of successive weak syllables.
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