Acoustic correlates of flaps in North American English

2013 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
pp. 3606-3606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Derrick ◽  
Ben Schultz
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Correlates

Acoustic correlates of primary and secondary stress in North American English

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Plag ◽  
Gero Kunter ◽  
Mareile Schramm
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American English ◽  
Secondary Stress ◽  
Acoustic Correlates

Innovation on screen

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Reichelt
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
American English ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Character Analysis ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Abstract This study explores marked affixation as a possible cue for characterization in scripted television dialogue. The data used here is the newly compiled TV Corpus, which encompasses over 265 million words in its North American English context. An initial corpus-based analysis quantifies the innovative use of affixes in word-formation processes across the corpus to allow for comparison with a following character analysis, which investigates how derivational word-formation supports characterization patterns within a specific series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For this, a list of productive prefixes (e.g. de-, un-) and suffixes (e.g. -y, -ish) is used to elicit relevant contexts. The study thus combines two approaches to word-formation processes in scripted contexts. On a large scale, it shows how derivational neologisms are spread across TV dialogue and on a much smaller scale, it highlights particular instances where these neologisms are used to aid character construction.

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