Word Stress Patterns in MSA: A Metrical-Based Analysis  

Oleh:

Ali, Zainab A. ; Ghani, Alias Abd.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Journal of English Language vol. 4 no. 2 (2014), page 35-52.
Topik: modern standard Arabic primary stress; metrical phonology; tree model; grid model
Fulltext: 6107-19532-1-SM.pdf (774.56KB)

Isi artikel

Word stress in phonological theory has been received much attention in Arabic than any other language specifically the topic itself. One of these theories is the metrical phonology theory (henceforth MPT) which is proposed by Hayes (1995) and it has an important role in determining the stress placement of the word level in any language. For this reason, the current study attempts to analyze the primary stress patterns in Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth MSA) specifically the monosyllabic, disyllabic, and trisyllabic lexical words in the light of the principles and parameters of MPT like syllable quantity, foot inventory, directionally, and extrametricality and to see how this theory can account and predict about the correct stress placement in the word. There are some studies which investigate the metrical structure of primary word stress in MSA mainly in some of the Arabic variants but there is no such study analyzes and outlines in more in-depth the primary stress patterns of MSA particularly monosyllabic, disyllabic, and trisyllabic lexical words by using two metrical models: the tree and grid model. Hence, the present study tries to accomplish this gap and the data of this study are taken from a master thesis of Al-Sulaimaan (1986) "A Study of Stress Patterns in English and Modern Standard Arabic". This study is value for those who specialists in phonetics and phonology specifically EFL/ESL learners since this study can help the learners to determine the correct placement of the word stress by applying the principles and parameters of MPT

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