Penultimate stress in monomorphemic forms is invariant (1a-c). In suffixed forms (1d-f), by contrast, stress falls on the antepenultimate syllable. These deviations from penultimate stress serve a function: by retaining stress on the antepenult, stress of the suffixed stems matches stress of the stems in isolation. In this paper I show that an analysis of accentual faithfulness using base-deriv...

The aim of the present contribution was to examine the factors influencing the prosodic processing in a language with predictable word stress. For Polish, a language with fixed penultimate stress but several well-defined exceptions, difficulties in the processing and representation of prosodic information have been reported (e.g., Peperkamp and Dupoux, 2002). The present study utilized event-re...

This study explores metathesis in Syrian Arabic (SyA). The data reveal two types of metatheses. Type-I is phonologically conditioned, involving at least one the four root consonants, ʒ, f, ʕ and ћ with fricatives (z, s), liquids (l, r) or gutturals (q/ʔ) specific positions within regardless word derivation. Type-II morpho-phonologically Standard reflexive Pattern VIII, (ʔi)ftaʕal, that resulted...

This is an initial study on the acquisition of English word stress by Brazilian Portuguese learners. The results show that incorrect productions typically had penultimate stress. This phenomenon is the focus of our present investigation. Two major factors are likely to be influencing these inaccurate productions: (i) the high frequency of penultimate stress in the firstlanguage lexicon and (ii)...

This paper revisits and expands on previous analyses of Norwegian syllable weight (Lunden 2006, 2013) different rime shapes’ ability to draw stress. A production study was run examine the durationally-based categorization all possible shapes in non-final word-final positions. Specific attention is given behavior long vowels open syllables, which may occur language but are relatively uncommon. E...

A recent production study found that duration is the main cue in realization of lexical stress in Hebrew. In order to examine this perceptually, two minimal pairs of bisyllabic words differing only in their stress patterns were uttered within a carrier sentence. Target words were then extracted and their vowel durations were manipulated in eight steps, either downward or upward, to form smooth ...

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...