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Edited by Geoff Lindsey and Andrew Nevins
[Language Faculty and Beyond 14] 2017
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English stress is binary and lexical

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Published online: 30 November 2017
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Article outline
  • 1.Deriving stress?
  • 2.Stress stability
  • 3.Words with multiple stresses
  • 4.Stress and vowels
  • 5.Identifying stress
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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