2014
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00574
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The direction of word stress processing in German: evidence from a working memory paradigm

Abstract: There are contradicting assumptions and findings on the direction of word stress processing in German. To resolve this question, we asked participants to read tri-syllabic non-words and stress ambiguous words aloud. Additionally, they also performed a working memory (WM) task (2-back task). In non-word reading, participants’ individual WM capacity was positively correlated with assignment of main stress to the antepenultimate syllable, which is most distant to the word’s right edge, while a (complementary) neg… Show more

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“…However, there was no significant correlation between WM capacity and stress assignment to the penultimate syllable, which has been claimed to be the default stress pattern in German (e.g., Wiese, 1996). Domahs F. et al (2014) argued that this pattern of results supported the assumption of leftward stress processing in German, according to which, the antepenultimate stress is more cognitively demanding than the ultimate stress for German speakers. Therefore, participants with good WM capacity were able to use antepenultimate stress, while participants with limited WM capacity tended to avoid it and use more ultimate stress.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 69%
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“…However, there was no significant correlation between WM capacity and stress assignment to the penultimate syllable, which has been claimed to be the default stress pattern in German (e.g., Wiese, 1996). Domahs F. et al (2014) argued that this pattern of results supported the assumption of leftward stress processing in German, according to which, the antepenultimate stress is more cognitively demanding than the ultimate stress for German speakers. Therefore, participants with good WM capacity were able to use antepenultimate stress, while participants with limited WM capacity tended to avoid it and use more ultimate stress.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 69%
“…First, the processing of word stress in EP has been claimed to occur in a leftward fashion (Mateus and Andrade, 2000; Vigário, 2003). From a cognitive perspective, processing costs should increase with increasing distance of stress position from the starting point of computation (e.g., Domahs F. et al, 2014). Since stress computation works from right to left in EP, penultimate stress should be computationally more demanding than ultimate stress.…”
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“…This leads to a general need for lexical specification of stress in German. However, beyond lexicalization there is accumulating evidence for a role of syllable weight in stress assignment, such that light final and closed prefinal syllables are associated with penultimate stress whereas (super) heavy final syllables, especially if combined with light prefinal syllables, lead to stress on the antepenultimate or ultimate syllable ( Janßen, 2003 ; Janßen and Domahs, 2008 ; Röttger et al, 2012 ; Domahs et al, 2014 ). Graphemic structure has an influence which is at least partly independent from phonological structure as can be seen in the case of complex graphemes which consist of two or three letters but correspond to only one phoneme (e.g., <sch>, <ch>).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%