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A Computational Approach To Resolving Certain Issues In Spanish Stress Placement, David Eddington
A Computational Approach To Resolving Certain Issues In Spanish Stress Placement, David Eddington
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Previous research into Spanish stress assignment suggests that accentuation involves learning and storing individual word tokens along with their inherent stress patterns, and analogizing on stored words when the need arises to determine the stress pattern of an unknown or unavailable word. Exactly what variables are most relevant to stress assignment has been hotly debated. In the present study, a number of analogical simulations were carried out to determine whether elements of the CV tier, syllable weight, phonemic representation, or a combination of these, best accounts for accentuation in Spanish.