The processing of lexically stressed syllables in read and spontaneous speech

摘要: Several writers have suggested that lexically stressed syllables form potential ‘islands of reliability’ in continuous speech. This paper describes experiments which examined the processing words with and unstressed initial both read spontaneous In first experiment, focussed on materials, trisyllabic nouns were presented, gated, three contextually-defined conditions. Analysis responses made by subjects hearing only syllable stimuli revealed markedly more intelligible than their counterparts, but when hearers presented full stimulus, there no reliable intelligibility differences. The second third hypothesis difference between would be greater Experiment 2, a large number polysyllabic content words, excised from speech 6 speake...