Accent Retraction on Proclitics in Contemporary Actors’ Speech: A Case Study of Two Theatre Performances
In contemporary implicit standard speech accents are almost never regularly realized on proclitics. This is true especially for the most recent retraction or the weakened accent retraction. Much research has shown that accents are not transferred regularly on proclitics even from shorter one- or two-syllable words, just like they are not transferred to polysyllabic prepositions, …
