1 Introduction Many languages systematically avoid stressing final syllables. This dispreference for final stress can be seen both in languages with weight-insensitive stress and those with weight-sensitive stress. For example, many languages with weight-insensitive stress, e.g. Nahuatl (Wolgemuth 1981), Polish (Comrie 1976), regularly stress the penultimate syllable, the syllable closest to th...

this article addresses the phonetic and phonological representation of h- phrase accent in the tonal structure of persian pre-nuclear accents. in an experimental study, three groups of pre-nuclear accentual phrases, namely, phrases with antepenultimate, penultimate and final stress pattern, were selected for tonal examination. materials were designed so as to yield under-pressure and pressure f...

This study compares the tonal structures of stressed penultimate syllables in Quebec French and emphatic stress in the same spoken variety. Two main experiments have been conducted: the first was designed to highlight the tonal characteristics of emphatic stress in read and spontaneous speech. The second was concerned with the phonetic and tonal description of stressed, penultimate syllables as...

Abstract Five bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars including Kavir, Pishtaz, Niknejad, Omid and Roshan were evaluated in a split plot experiment based on randomized complete block design with three replications. Water stress and well-watered conditions were assigned to the main plots and varieties to the subplots. Water stress was imposed by withholding irrigation at the booting stage....

This paper explores the usage of antepenultimate and penultimate stress in 1st person plural past tense verb forms in Polish. Although Polish generally has penultimate stress, prescriptive grammars treat these verb forms as an exception, assigning antepenultimate stress. It has been argued elsewhere that penultimate stress is possible in these forms, although in colloquial speech. Data from 40 ...