objective: lc/na system is activator of hypothalamic–pituitar–adrenal (hpa) axis and cold stress triggers an equally robust increase in plasma na. increased lhrh content probably due to absence or decrease of ne release from the lc and positive feedback action of e2 on lh secretion show that in late proestrous phase na, lh and e2 have a strong link. this study was conducted to evaluate the effe...

This study is to investigate the acquisition of the English stress system by Chinese adult second language learners whose native language is of a different type from that of English. In the present study, twenty college non-English majors participated in three tasks. Three factors or exactly syllabic structure, lexical class, and stress patterns of known words contributing to the acquisition of...

Acute An exposure to an environmental stress that is brief in relation to the temporal scale of the biological system exposed. Biosphere All the plants and animals on Earth, together with the habitat they need for long-term survival. Biotic impoverishment The decline of a species to the point of having little or no ecological significance. Chronic An exposure to an environmental stress that is ...

A key component of early intervention for children with delayed language acquisition is early assessment. Previous research has shown that English-learning infants’ sensitivity to lexical stress plays a role in their segmentation of words from fluent speech – a critical step to developing a lexicon. This study investigated the possibility that performance on a word stress discrimination task pr...

Dutch and Spanish differ in how predictable the stress pattern is as a function of the segmental content: it is correlated with syllable weight in Dutch but not in Spanish. In the present study, two experiments were run to compare the abilities of Dutch and Spanish speakers to separately process segmental and stress information. It was predicted that the Spanish speakers would have more difficu...

We examine the typology of quantityinsensitive (QI) stress systems and ask to what extent an existing optimality theoretic model of QI stress can predict the observed typological frequencies of stress patterns. We find three significant correlates of pattern attestation and frequency: the trigram entropy of a pattern, the degree to which it is “confusable” with other patterns predicted by the m...