어휘액센트 이론에 의한 영어명사의 예외 강세 연구

Abstract

ABSTRACT

A Study on the Exceptional Stress of English Noun by Lexical Accent

An, Jin-hee Advisor: Prof. Jo, Hak-haeng Ph.D. Major in English Education Graduate School of Education, Chosun University

The aim of this thesis is to investigate English noun stress in the framework of constraint-based theories. English noun stress has been a challenge to SPE's rule-based theory in dealing with the exceptional stress because of its arbitrariness of rule order. In this thesis, standard Optimality Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1993; Prince & Smolensky 1993, 2002), Lexical Constraint Domains (Itô & Mester 1995), Local Conjunction (Smolensky 1995; Kirchner 1996), Sympathy Theory (McCarthy 1999), and Stratal Optimality Theory (Kiparsky 2000; Collie 2007) are attempted to resolve this problem. However, there are also problems in them. To resolve the problems in the theories above, I attempt to solve the exceptional stress of English noun by employing Lexical Accent (Hammond 1999), which is another constraint-based theory. Based on Lexical Accent, this thesis examines and analyses the exceptional stress of English noun. By doing so, I will reveal that Lexical Accent can explain the exceptional stress of English noun more persuasively than any other theory. This thesis is organized as follows: In Chapter 1, I provide an introductory remark about this thesis. In Chapter 2, I examine stress and foot briefly. In Chapter 3, after outlining the stress of English noun, I point out the problem of the SPE's analysis. In Chapter 4, I explain the theoretical background of standard Optimality Theory. And then after analysing the exceptional stress of English noun in the frameworks of standard Optimality Theory, Lexical Constraint Domains, Local Conjunction, Sympathy Theory, and Stratal Optimality Theory, I point out the problems of constraint-based theories above. Chapter 5 is the main part of this thesis. In this chapter, I try to resolve the exceptional stress of English noun by utilizing Lexical Accent. By doing so, I prove that Lexical Accent can solve the exceptional stress of English noun more persuasively than any other theory. Chapter 6 is a concluding summary of this thesis.