A contrastive survey of stress assignment in Danish and Norwegian. Part 2 - Complex words
A contrastive survey of stress assignment in Danish and Norwegian. Part 2 - Complex words

Summary/Abstract: This is the second part of a two-part article aiming to present a contrastive survey of stress assignment in Advanced Standard Copenhagen Danish and Urban East Norwegian. The goal is to establish which of the apparent differences and similarities are inherent in the languages and which stem from the differences between the analyses and theoretical approaches that have been applied to them in existing descriptions. Part 2 deals with complex words, i.e. affixed forms and compounds. As in the case of simplex words, which were discussed in Part 1, it is argued that the rules governing stress placement can be modelled in similar ways, following a metrical and constraint-based approach. The most notable difference found here is the assignment of secondary stresses in compounds.

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