Sentence examples for assignment of stress from inspiring English sources

The lineation invites us to continue this pattern throughout, and by so doing, "annotates" key words (hope, I, you) with an assignment of stress we might not otherwise have given them.

Critically, he produced many stress errors in a manner consistent with sub-lexical assignment of stress.

In contrast, with nonword primes, favoring a sub-lexical assignment of stress, two contrasting predictions can be made.

If an increase in errors were found, however, this would weaken the idea of a default assignment of stress.

Alternatively, the metrical pattern of the prime, specifying position of stressed syllable, might influence the assignment of stress of the target.

Typically, their errors have been classified as regularisation related to the assignment of word stress, i.e. those patients mostly produced the regular or dominant stress pattern avoiding the irregular or infrequent pattern while preserving syllable and phoneme structures [ 26- 33].

Data from pseudoword reading [ 29, 34, 35], EEG [ 36], and patient studies [ 31] have shown that the assignment of main stress position in German words is influenced by their vowel quality.

Third, there is weak evidence for a default assignment of the dominant stress to words, and only when the sublexical mechanism is used (Experiments 2 and 4).

The present results are obviously relevant for modeling the interface between word naming and speech production, with the inclusion of stress assignment, which is rather neglected in existing computational models.

This would be consistent with the idea of a default mechanism of stress assignment operating as an abstract pattern and reflecting a general bias of the language.

In fact, a model of stress assignment developed by Zevin & Joanisse 2000, unpublished manuscript) successfully simulated the influence of precisely the kind of stress neighborhood identified in Italian on pronunciation of nonwords by English speakers.