The processing of German word stress: evidence for the prosodic hierarchy  

Oleh:

Domahs, Ulrike ; Wiese, Richard ; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina ; Schlesewsky, Matthias

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Phonology (Full Text) vol. 25 no. 1 (May 2008), page 1-36.
Fulltext: Domahs_Ulrike.pdf (485.04KB)

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The present paper explores whether the metrical foot is necessary for the description of prosodic systems. To this end, we present empirical findings on the perception of German word stress using event-related brain potentials as the dependent measure. A manipulation of the main stress position within threesyllable words revealed differential brain responses, which (a) correlated with the reorganisation of syllables into feet in stress violations, and (b) differed in strength depending on syllable weight. The experiments therefore provide evidence that the processing of word stress not only involves lexical information about stress positions, but also (quantity-sensitive) information about metrical structures, in particular feet and syllables.

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