Automatic assignment of lexical stress in italian
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An automatic method to assign lexical stress in Italian from a written text is presented here. This method is based on specific morphological properties of the Italian morphemes, which can only be stressed on the last or the penul timate syllable. Using a morphological analyzer and a morpheme database, the assignment program attempts to analyze each entry into a morpheme followed by one or more suffixes and flexions, which can contain a stressable syllable. The resul ting stressed syllable is determined by applying a simple final stress rule to these elements.
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