Tham khảo tài liệu 'word for mation in english_8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | For more material and information please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at Chapter 6 Compounding 180 Let us look again at the structures in 10 . The generalization that emerges from the three pairs is that the most prominent stress is always placed on the lefthand member of the compound inside the compound and never on the member of the compound that is not a compound itself. Paraphrasing the rule put forward by Liberman and Prince 1977 we could thus say that in a compound of the structure XY Y will receive strongest stress if and only if it is a compound itself. This means that a compound XY will have left-hand stress if Y is not a compound itself. If Y is a compound the rule is applied again to Y. This stress assigning algorithm is given in 11 and exemplified with the example in 12 11 Stress assignment algorithm for English compounds Is the right member a compound If yes the right member must be more prominent than the left member. If no the left member must be more prominent than the right member. 12 bathroom towel designer bathroom towel designer designer of towels for the bathroom Following our algorithm we start with the right member and ask whether it is a compound itself. The right member of the compound is designer . not a compound hence the other member bathroom towel must be more prominent so that designer is left unstressed. Applying the algorithm again on bathroom towel yields the same result its right member is not a compound either hence is unstressed. The next left member is bathroom where the right member is equally not a compound hence unstressed. The most prominent element is therefore the remaining word bath which must receive the primary stress of the compound. The result of the algorithm is shown in 12 where w for weak is assigned to less prominent constituents and s for strong is assigned to more prominent constituents the most prominent constituent is the one which is only dominated by s s For more material and information .
