Structural Factors Affecting the Assignment of Word Stress in German

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo B. Röttger ◽  
Ulrike Domahs ◽  
Marion Grande ◽  
Frank Domahs
Keyword(s):  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Production Task ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Stress Assignment ◽  
Word Stress ◽  
Main Stress ◽  
Orthographic Coding ◽  
Final Syllable ◽  
Shed Light

This paper aims to shed light on regularities underlying German stress assignment. The results of a pseudoword production task suggest that rhyme complexity of the final syllable is a strong predictor of main stress position in German. We also found that antepenult rhyme complexity and orthographic rhyme structure have significant effect on stress assignment. In general, the effects seem to be probabilistic rather than categorical. Our results suggest that phonological theories of German word stress need to allow for multiple probabilistic factors, including syllabic structure of all stressable syllables and orthographic coding.*

Rules of stress assignment in Québec French: Evidence from perceptual data

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Paradis ◽  
Denise Deshaies
Keyword(s):  
Traditional View ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Stress Assignment ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
Quebec French ◽  
Final Syllable

ABSTRACTThis article seeks to contribute to the analysis of the prosodic system of Québec French in a variationist framework. However, major problems have to be resolved before one can give a comprehensive view of this system, one of these concerning stress assignment. In order to examine the validity of the traditional view claimed for French by most linguists, which states that stress is always superposed on the final syllable of lexical words, different perceptual tests were devised and carried out with two groups of students. The results of these tests show the effect of structural factors on the perception of stressed syllables in Québec French and demonstrate that this canonic rule does not always hold for varieties of Québec French. On the basis of these results, a subset of stress rules is then proposed and illustrated with examples of words tested in the perceptual tests. Counterexamples to these rules are thereafter discussed, and a reconsideration of the principles of syllabification that are usually taken for granted for French is proposed in light of variable rules.

295. Structural factors affecting the puffing behaviour of petroleum cokes

Carbon ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
J. Machnikowski ◽  
L. Wajzer ◽  
S. Jasieńko
Keyword(s):  
Structural Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting

scholarly journals The factors affecting customers’ decisions to adopt Islamic banking

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 144-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seipati Bodibe ◽  
Norman Chiliya ◽  
Christopher Tarisayi Chikandiwa
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Community Influence ◽  
Target Community ◽  
Shed Light

Attracting and retaining profitable customers to new and unfamiliar products and services is one of the challenges that the banking fraternity is faced with today. The purpose of this article is to highlight some of the important factors that influence attitude in the Islamic banking. Probability sampling was used and 250 questionnaires were distributed among participants based at a local university in Johannesburg. The results revealed that there is a positive relationship between product awareness, social norms, community influence and attitude towards Islamic banking. Also, the results indicated that most of the respondents were not aware of the Islamic banking. The bank practitioners and marketers were, therefore, recommended to take a focused approach on creating awareness of the Islamic banking. Marketers can target community leaders or opinion leaders in order to shed light on Islamic banking to the rest of their community. Keywords: product awareness, social norms and community influence. JEL Classification: G21, Z13

Family Estrangement

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Agllias
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Family Systems Theory ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Bowen Family Systems Theory ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Parental Alienation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Family ◽  
Grief Responses ◽  
The Impact

Family estrangement—a concept similar to emotional cutoff in Bowen family systems theory—is the unsatisfactory physical or emotional distancing between at least two family members. It is attributed to a number of biological, psychological, social, and structural factors affecting the family, including attachment disorders, incompatible values and beliefs, unfulfilled expectations, critical life events and transitions, parental alienation, and ineffective communication patterns. Family estrangement is often experienced as a considerable loss; its ambiguous nature and social disenfranchisement can contribute to significant grief responses, perceived stigma, and social isolation in some cases. The social-work profession has a role to play in raising social and political awareness of the prevalence of, contributors to, and effects of estrangement on the intergenerational family, with clinicians working to assess and address the impact of estrangement on individuals and the family system.

Word Stress in Languages of the Caucasus

2021 ◽  
pp. 728-755
Author(s):  
Lena Borise
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Stress Assignment ◽  
North West ◽  
Word Stress ◽  
North East ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Whole Word ◽  
Complex Cases

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the stress systems in Abkhaz-Adyghean/North-West Caucasian, Nakh-Dagestanian/North-East Caucasian, and Kartvelian/South-Caucasian languages, as well as the larger Indo-European languages of the area, Ossetic (Iron and Digoron) and Armenian. First, it addresses the so-called free stress languages, in which stress placement is not restricted to particular syllables/syllable types or morphemes, and the fixed stress languages, in which stress always targets a syllable in a certain position, counting from the left or right edge of a word. Next, quantity-sensitive stress systems are considered, in which stress is found on the heavier syllable within a given domain, such as a whole word or a part of it (a so-called stress window). Further, the chapter discusses languages in which stress assignment is morphologically conditioned. After the chapter introduces this classification of stress systems, it addresses the more complex cases that do not (fully) fit into it, notably the stress systems of Abkhaz-Adyghean and some of the Nakh-Dagestanian languages. Finally, the chapter considers underdescribed stress systems and languages for which conflicting descriptions have been proposed. The chapter closes with an overview of the available instrumental studies. Overall, the aim of the current chapter is to highlight the impressive diversity that the languages of the Caucasus exhibit in the realm of word stress and emphasize the need for further research in the area, both instrumental and theoretical.

Structural Factors Affecting Leaf Degradation of Old World Bluestem and Weeping Love Grass1

1983 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1434-1446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny E. Akin ◽  
Franklin E. Barton ◽  
Samuel W. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Structural Factors ◽  
Old World ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Old World Bluestem

scholarly journals Exploiting structural and conformational effects for a site-selective lithiation of azetidines

2016 ◽  
Vol 88 (7) ◽  
pp. 631-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Parisi ◽  
Marina Zenzola ◽  
Emanuela Capitanelli ◽  
Claudia Carlucci ◽  
Giuseppe Romanazzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Space ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Selective Functionalization ◽  
Conformational Effects ◽  
Conformational Preferences ◽  
A Site ◽  
Site Selective

AbstractInterest in molecular structures bearing four-membered heterocycles (FMHs) is growing due to the possibility to explore new regions of the chemical space and get new lead molecules. Our interest in the development of divergent synthesis of functionalized FMHs, prompted us to disclose factors affecting the reactivity of nitrogen-bearing FMHs towards metalating agents. Our investigations demonstrated that structural factors and conformational preferences need to be considered in planning a site-selective functionalization of azetidines. It will be showed how such factors could have pivotal importance in the reactivity of FMHs.

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