A Contrastive Metrical Analysis Of Main Word Stress In English And Cairene Colloquial Arabic
by Mohamed Fathy Khalifa /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book analyses Cairenes interlingual errors in English main
word stress following Halle and Vergnauds (1987) metrical model and
Archibalds (1998) parameter resetting. The findings show the
difficulty the research subjects had in stressing items with stress
different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress
similar to CCA. The book also shows that the subjects correct
stress patterns were due to parameter resetting, and that English
stress patterns that are both different and more marked than
corresponding CCA stress patterns caused learning difficulties for
the subjects.
This book analyses Cairenes interlingual errors in English main
word stress following Halle and Vergnauds (1987) metrical model and
Archibalds (1998) parameter resetting. The findings show the
difficulty the research subjects had in stressing items with stress
different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress
similar to CCA. The book also shows that the subjects correct
stress patterns were due to parameter resetting, and that English
stress patterns that are both different and more marked than
corresponding CCA stress patterns caused learning difficulties for
the subjects.
