Properties of nominal stress grammar in Greek
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0006/000421Keywords:
lexical stress systems, nominal stress, pseudowords, grammarAbstract
This study reports on the findings of a production experiment aimed at exploring the distribution of stress patterns in the internal grammar of young and adult native speakers of Greek. With a special focus on nominal stress, we examine how these patterns are reflected in participants' stress assignment choices for novel inflected words. More specifically, we investigate whether morphological information at the right edge of the word, combined with lexical frequency, serves as a potential cue for stress position. Finally, we evaluate systematic differences between the grammars of young and adult speakers.
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