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Я A rn o ld
,
K. H ansen.
Phonetik Der Englischen Sprache. Eine Einfuhrung. Leipzig, 1965,
s. Ш.
2
D. Jones.
Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary. М ., 1964, p. X X T V .
tion» an d gives the exam ples:
harass, prim arily, controversy,
statutory, mondatory, rhetoric
in w hich the secon d syllable is
stressed , w hile in the w ord
dispute
the first syllable is stre sse d 1.
P artly, th ese changes in stress p lacem en t h ave occured under
A m e ric an influence and p artly due to analogy i.e. the changes r e
in fo rc ed by analogy in the accentual structure o f w ords. F or e x
am ple, d u e to the influence o f th e verb
'compare
the adjective
com parable
/к з т р е э п Ы / is stressed on the first syllable. T his
k in d o f anological stress m ay be observ ed in
preferable, lamen
table, adm irable
in w hich the first sy llable is stressed. T here are
w ords in w hich the second sy llab le is stressed due to new ten d en
cies in w ord accentuation, th at can n o t be exp lained by analogy, e.
g.
doc'trinal, communal, formidable, hos'pitable, pe'jorative,
aris'tocrat.
In disyllabic w ords, in w hich norm ally the second syllable is
stressed the stress is shifted to the first syllable, e. g. garage,
adult, alloy, ally
2
etc.
In som e E ng lish w ords there are tw o or m o re 'possible v ari
ants o f w ord accentuation. S uch cases are k no w n as
free varia
tion of the accentual patterns of words,
e. d.
decade
/'d e k a d / in
R P and /d l'k eid / p o p u lar p ro n u n ciatio n , sim ilarly,
deficit
/'defisit/,
/d i'fisit/,
explicable
/ek s'p lik ab l/, /ik s 'pliksbl/.
O th er w ords w ith free variatio n o f accentuation given by D.
Jo n es, Ch. B arber, R. A rn old and K. H ansen are listed below :
interesting /in tris tiq /, /'lntarestig/, /.m ts're stu j/;
ap plicable /'aeplikabl/, /э'рЬ кэЫ /;
etiqu ette /,eti Tcet/, /'etik et/;
hospitab le /h o sp itab ly , /h o s'p itab l/;
intricacy /'m tn k a si/, /m 'trik asi/;
kilom etre /'k ila ,m i:t
3
/, /k ilo m its /;
m iscellany /m i'se ism /, /'m isilsn i/;
W aterloo /,w o :ta lu :/, /'w o :ta lu :/.
1
A. C. Gimson.
English as she is spoke (n). «New Society», 8 July 1976, p. 72.
2
Ch. Barber.
Linguistic Change in Present-Day English. London, 1974, p. 66.
A m arked differen ce m ay be noticed b etw een R P an d G A in
the position o f secondary accent. T hey are found in J. W in dsor
L ew is's d ictio n a ry 1:
in terloper R P Л т э 1 э и р э (г)/, G A Л тэ Д э и р э г /;
com m en tary R P /k o m a n ts n /, G A /к а т э п Д е п /;
cen tenary R P /se n 'ti:n
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