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Suffixes and Stress/Accent Assignment in English and Japanese: a Survey( Hideki Zamma Kobe City University of Foreign Studies 1 Introduction It is widely known that English suffixes should be divided into two “classes” according to whether or not they are stress-neutral. Classhood has been captured in the literature in various theoretical ways: e.g., by means of boundary symbols (cf. Chomsky and Halle (1968)), hierarchical strata (cf. Kiparsky (1982)), and multiple correspondence (cf. Benua (1998)). The suffixes in (1) are examples of typical English suffixes, taken from SPE and various