The Core of the English Lexicon: Stress and Graphophonology

Abstract

This paper is a study of the 5000 most frequent word-forms of the English lexicon. Both stress and graphophonological regularities are evaluated within Fournier’s (2010b) framework. The results show the high efficiency of Fournier’s model and that a large number of exceptions fall into well-known classes.

Keywords

• phonology
• morphology
• English
• Corpus
• stress