New Perspectives on English Word Stress

New Perspectives on English Word Stress explores the mechanism of word stress assignment in contemporary English from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. Comprising nine chapters, these approaches include a historical overview of the study of stress
the relationship between historic changes in stress and meaning
the relationship between spelling and stress
syllable weight and stress
the theoretical treatment of exceptions
stress mechanisms in Australian English
and stress in Singapore English. The book presents new data and provides the reader with access to various approaches to English word stress in phonology.