Journal of Linguistics http://journals.cambridge.org/LIN Additional services for Journal of Linguistics: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Under stress: a functional explanation of English sentence stress Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Shalom Lappin Journal of Linguistics / Volume 19 / Issue 02 / September 1983, pp 419 - 453 DOI: 10.1017/S0022226700007805, Published online: 28 November 2008 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022226700007805 How to cite this article: Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Shalom Lappin (1983). Under stress: a functional explanation of English sentence stress. Journal of Linguistics, 19, pp 419-453 doi:10.1017/S0022226700007805 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/LIN, IP address: 128.122.253.228 on 23 Apr 2015