@inbook{ce88027e51c8470fa5f84f11abefb297,
title = "Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Probabilistic Orthographic Cues to Lexical Stress",
abstract = "Reading a word requires converting symbols to a phonetic sequence but also determining the stress position of that word. In this chapter, we analysed corpora of English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, and Greek to determine whether sublexical probabilistic information from the very beginnings and endings of words provided sufficient information to determine stress patterns. We found that such information was sufficient to accurately determine stress positions. However, languages varied as to whether beginnings or endings were more informative. Furthermore, the extent to which stress patterns were regular within each language related to the reliability of the sublexical cues to stress position. The analyses show that stress does not have to be stored at the lexical level to support pronunciation. ",
keywords = "Lexical Stress, Orthographic Cues, Linguistics",
author = "Padraic Monaghan and Joanne Arciuli and Nada Seva",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027244079",
series = "Trends in Language Research",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "215--236",
editor = "Jenny Thomson and Linda Jarmulowicz",
booktitle = "Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy",
address = "Netherlands",
}