Monitoring metrical stress in polysyllabic words. Language and Cognitive Processes.Schiller, N. O., Jansma, B. M., Peters, J., & Levelt, W. J. (2006). Monitoring metrical stress in polysyllabic words. Language and Cognitive Processes, 21, 112-140....
Germanic Stress Rule (GSR) results in native words having main stress on the first syllable of the root, leaving grammatical affixes completely unstressed, and derivational affixes either unstressed or weakly stressed. 2 Latin Stress Rule: suffix-induced stress 2.1 Disyllabic words get initial stress...
Word stress in English, an aspect of phonetics, can seem to be a very complicated issue. Where do we put the accent on multi-syllable or plurisyllabic words in English? Native English speakers don't often make mistakes, but they never learn any rules! Obviously therefore there must be some...
Two kinds of stress should be paid attention to: word-level stress which is to stress the proper syllable in multi-syllabic words; phrase-level/sentence-level stress and each of them has one syllable that receives greater or more prominent stress than the others....
Since Chinese lost over 50% of its syllables in the past 1000 years, a standard explanation for the increase of disyllabic words is that they are created to avoid homonyms. I argue instead that, although disyllabic words have increased recently, Chinese has always had many disyllabic words. ...
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For example, in English, while the majority of polysyllabic words have first-syllable stress, a large proportion of words – over 20% – do not (CELEX database: Baayen et al., 1993). So how does the reading system learn to apply first-syllable stress for ‘zebra’ but second-syllable ...
Some Stress Related Acoustic Features of Disyllabic Words in Mandarin Chinese中央研究院歷史語言研究所中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊鄭秋豫
ThesyllabicconsonantsinEnglishare:n,l,r widen/waidn/,cotton/kotn/,bottle/botl/,able/eibl/ Syllabicroccursinwordslike:history/histri/ Hungary/hangri/ , InUNSTRESSEDsyllablesweUSUALLY(but notalways)findWEAKvowels. Weakvowels Ə,I,U ChartofVowelfrequencies Syllabledivision TheMaximalOnsetsprinciple. ...
(1991). Stress in silent reading: Effects of concurrent articulation on the detection of syllabic stress patterns in written words in English speakers. Language and Cognitive Processes, 6, 29 - 47.CAMBELL, R. ROSEN, S., SOLIS,-MACIAS, V. and WHITE, T. "Stress in silent reading: Effects...