On the Use and Usefulness of Stress Diacritics in Reading Greek

Autor/in	Protopapas, A.
Titel	On the Use and Usefulness of Stress Diacritics in Reading Greek
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 19 (2006) 2, S.171-198 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-005-4023-z
Schlagwörter	Suprasegmentals; Orthographic Symbols; Reading Processes; Greek; Grade 7; Syllables; Foreign Countries; Structural Linguistics; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseprozess; Grieche; Griechisch; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Silbe; Ausland; Griechenland
Abstract	The assignment of stress when reading Greek can be based on lexical and orthographic information. One hundred and seventy seventh-grade children read lists of isolated words and pseudowords. A large proportion of stress assignment errors were made in pseudoword reading, especially on the items that do not follow the most frequent penultimate stress pattern. Analysis of text corpora indicates that ignoring written stress diacritics would result in less than 1% errors, without taking into account disambiguating effects of context. It is tentatively suggested that, in reading Greek, stress assignment is primarily lexical. The results are consistent with a hypothesis that the bisyllabic trochee is the default metrical frame in Greek. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10