lexical stress
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflexicalandstress
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lexical
adjective
uk/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/us/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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stress
noun
uk/stres/us/stres/
great worry caused by a difficult situation, or something that causes ...
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(Definition oflexicalandstressfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflexical stress
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We include primarylexicalstress, which is indicated by the presence or absence of a marker on the rhyme of a syllable.
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These results point to an effect oflexicalstressin identifying phonetically ambiguous words.
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Recall that, unlikelexicalstress, compound and phrasal stress do not have substantial segmental effects on an item.
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According to the functional load hypothesis of prosodic lateralization,lexicalstressis processed in the left hemisphere.
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When thelexicalstressis antepenultimate, the emergent foot is also trochaic.
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The results are discussed in relation to theories of the hemispheric lateralization of prosodic processing and the role oflexicalstressin word recognition.
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In forms withlexicalstress, the prominence of the foot is determined by the position of the lexically specified stress.
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The second suprasegmental area in which differences among the three word classes may be found islexicalstress.
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Exploring the role oflexicalstressin lexical recognition.
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Lexicalstresspatterns were shown to influence word recognition in other ways as well.
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The present investigation examined the role oflexicalstressin auditory word recognition by both normal and brain-damaged individuals.
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Since the trochaic stems exhibit mobile stress, they cannot be assumed to bearlexicalstress.
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Along the way, new ways of representing ' floating autosegments ' andlexicalstressas distinctive constraint violations are suggested.
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Furthermore, they bearlexicalstressand cannot have wide scope over the coordination of two nouns.
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These stimuli were spoken without prosody: there was nolexicalstressor pitch change.
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A number of recent studies posited an important role forlexicalstressinformation in normal word recognition processes.
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Note that the location oflexicalstressis indicated by capitalized text.
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These findings indicate thatlexicalstressinformation plays an important role in word identification.
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