Probabilistic Induction of Metrical Trees for Word Stress Assignment

Sources of information for stress assignment in reading Greek

To assign lexical stress when reading, the Greek reader can potentially rely on lexical information (knowledge of the word), visual–orthographic information (processing of the written diacritic), or a default metrical strategy (penultimate stress pattern). Previous studies with secondary education children have shown strong lexical effects on stress assignment and have provided evidence for a d...

On Stress and Linguistic

In this essay a new theory of stress and linguistic rhythm will be elaborated, based on the proposals of Liberman (1975).' It will be argued that certain features of prosodic systems like that of English, in particular the phenomenon of "stress subordination", are not to be referred primarily to the properties of individual segments (or syllables), but rather reflect a hierarchical rhythmic str...

A Memory-Based Approach to Meter Induction

Meter induction has been an important topic in the computational modeling of music cognition for quite some time now. In this paper, an attempt is made to model how listeners arrive at a metrical interpretation of a fragment of music. A number of existing models are based on the Gestalt principles of perception, ‘simplicity’ or ease of encoding being a key aspect. An alternative to this approac...

Running head: METRICAL EXPECTATIONS INFLUENCE WORD RECOGNITION 1 Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence perception of lexical stress Date of resubmission: 9/21/2014 Running head: METRICAL EXPECTATIONS INFLUENCE WORD RECOGNITION 2 Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence perception of lexical stress

Contextual Metrical Invisibility

This paper investigates a stress phenomenon which I refer to as “contextual metrical invisibility” in several languages, the primary examples being from Mohawk and Passamaquoddy. In each of these languages, there is a class of vowels which are, in certain contexts but not in others, invisible to syllable-sensitive processes. The proposal I make is that such vowels, which I refer to as “weak vow...