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...

Production of lexical stress patterns in biand tri-syllabic words by five-year-old children was investigated. Duration and amplitude, which are the primary acoustic correlates of lexical stress in American English, were examined in words produced in isolation, in utterance-initial and utterance-final positions. In all three prosodic environments, children and adults differentiated lexical stres...

In four reading aloud experiments we investigated the operations occurring at the level of the phonological buffer by manipulating stress and phoneme information. In all experiments we adopted a masked priming paradigm with three-syllable Italian word targets. Experiments 1 and 2 tested the effect of pure segmental (e.g., fe%%%% - FEcola) and pure suprasegmental (CInema - FEcola) overlap, respe...

T gran Cien 000 Spa 776 the with reco supp stru S IDE A Soto Brit 1Z4 mation in the activation of spoken words. Listeners heard neutral sentences ending with word fragments (e.g., princi-) and made lexical decisions on letter strings presented at fragment offset. Responses were compared for fragment primes that fully matched the spoken form of the initial portion of target words, versus primes ...

drought is one of the most important factors limiting crop yields around the world. drought stress in plants, the change (increase or decrease) in the production of plant proteins. this research was carried out using bread wheat genotypes. for evaluation of leaf protein pattern in wheat, 10 genotypes were assayed with 3 replications under irrigated (non-stress) and rain-fed (stress) conditions....

This paper investigates Taiwanese EFL learners’ identification and discrimination of English word stress when the cue of pitch is manipulated. Forty Taiwanese EFL learners and twenty English controls participated in two perceptual experiments. In Experiment 1, the participants were asked to identify a perceived non-word when its stressed syllable was realized phonetically either (a) in higher p...