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A Theory of Stress
George, H. V.; Neo, B. C.
RELC Journal, 5, 1, 50-63, Jun 74
Stress in the English language is a key to information distribution in a sentence. This paper gives experimental evidence that, in speech, each word is given stress according to the degree to which that word can be predicted as an item in a sequence of items. (CK)
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