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Skladanek, Barbara. 1975. The function of context in compound stress assignment. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 11 (Parasession on functionalism) : 481–498.
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Article in journal
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English
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S. shows that, without the assumption of a preceding context, two and three-word compounds tend to be stressed according to Chomsky and Halle's Compound Stress Rule. But if a context is introduced, stress placement changes and can sometimes be explained in terms of the intended contextual effects. (The paper reports an experimental study.)