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An interactive visualization of Google Books Ngrams with R and Shiny : exploring a(n) historical increase in onset strength in a(n) huge database
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An interactive visualization of Google Books Ngrams with R and Shiny : exploring a(n) historical increase in onset strength in a(n) huge database
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Tracing the (re-)emergence of /h/ and /j/ onsets through 350 years of books : mergers and merger reversals at the interface of phonetics and phonology
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Tracing the (re-)emergence of /h/ and /j/ onsets through 350 years of books : mergers and merger reversals at the interface of phonetics and phonology
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Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance
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In this paper we argue that (near) synonymy can result in syntactic specialization, and we test the hypothesis that one major factor underlying such fixation may be rhythmic in nature. Thus, the analysis extends the study of the preference for alternating stressed and unstressed syllables (Schlüter, 2005) to lexical choices. We investigate the syntactic distribution of the (near-)synonymous adjective pairs rich vs. wealthy, fast/quick vs. rapid, glad vs. happy and shut vs. closed, showing that the monosyllabic members – or the one with a short syllable as opposed to a long syllable – tend to be underrepresented in prenominal position. Our hypothesis is that, due to the pervasiveness of initial stress in English nouns, monosyllabic adjectives tend to be avoided in prenominal position if they can be replaced by disyllabic equivalents. By extension, in the absence of such equivalents, other kinds of temporal spacing between stresses, such as long instead of short syllables, can satisfy the rhythmic requirement. Drawing on large historical as well as present-day corpora covering the 19th and 20th centuries (mainly COHA and COCA), we portray some relatively stable asymmetrical diachronic and synchronic distributions of these synonym pairs and triplets across attributive and predicative uses. The analysis will also point to potentially interacting factors, such as concomitant semantic specialization resulting from this syntactic fixation and the status of (fixed) collocations. The latter will be analysed in more diachronic depth on the basis of EEBO.
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420; collocations; fixed expressions; interaction across linguistic levels; lexical choices; phraseological units; Principle of Rhythmic Alternation; stress clashes; syllable duration; synonyms
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URL: https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/47930
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004361133_005
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Variante oder Fehler? : Der Beitrag der englischen Korpuslinguistik zur Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung
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Phonological determinants of grammatical variation in English: Chomsky’s worst possible case
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All beginnings are light: A study of upbeat phenomena at the syntax-phonology interface
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Why "worser" is better: The double comparative in 16th and 17th century English
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Rhythmic grammar : the influence of rhythm on grammatical variation and change in English
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Schlüter, Julia. - : Mouton de Gruyter, 2019. : Berlin u.a., 2019. : nobamberg, 2019
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All Beginnings Are Light : A Study of Upbeat Phenomena at the Syntax-Phonology Interface
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Constraints on the attributive use of 'predicative only' adjectives : A reassessment
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Phonological determinants of grammatical variation in English : Chomsky’s worst possible case
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