Aspects of English Sentence Stress

Author/Contributor(s):	Schmerling, Susan F
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Date:	09/01/1976
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Using a working definition of stress as subjective impression of prominence, the author attempts to formulate general principles that will predict the relative prominence of different words in particular utterances--what might be called the syntax of stress.