Accent in simple and complex words of English

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1 (A), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institute for Anglistics/ American Studies), course: PS English Sounds and Letters - Past and Present, language: English, abstract: Word accent is a largely discussed field in modern linguistics. If one looks up the combination of t...