ЧЍЙЗБУРГЕР, ЧИЙЗБУ̀РГЕР OR ЧЍЙЗБУ̀РГЕР? ON STRESS AGAIN AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN DICTIONARIES

Abstract

In this paper the author investigates the production of stress in the English N+N borrowing чийзбургер ‘cheeseburger’ in Bulgarian by two groups of speakers: Bulgarian learners of English and Bulgarian speakers with no knowledge of English. The experiment consisted of two tests: first a production, and then a perception one (a judgement task), with five trained phoneticians taking part in the latter. Part of a bigger ongoing study, the research was inspired by the various representations of the word 'чийзбургер' ‘cheeseburger’ with different stress patterns in the examined dictionaries.