The Process of Stress Assignment in Reading Aloud: Critical Issues From Studies on Italian

In polysyllabic languages the assignment of stress is crucial for understanding the reading process. Here we review empirical evidence, drawn mainly from studies on Italian, and discuss critical issues in understanding reading. We first discuss the lexical and sublexical mechanisms responsible for stress assignment and propose that the former is based on item-specific knowledge and the latter on the statistical-distributional knowledge that readers have acquired about their language. Then we examine the idea that stress and phonemes pertain to two dimensions of the word, which can be placed at two different representational levels. Finally, we analyze the effects of stress assignment on word articulation, a promising field for future investigation. These issues are addressed by reviewing the studies conducted in adult and young readers to outline the developmental trajectory of stress assignment and discuss how it operates in the reading system.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Sulpizio, Simone
Burani, Cristina
Colombo, Lucia
Publisher: 
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,, Mahwah, NJ , Stati Uniti d'America
Source: 
Scientific studies of reading 19 (2015): 5–20. doi:10.1080/10888438.2014.976340
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Sulpizio, Simone; Burani, Cristina; Colombo, Lucia/titolo:The Process of Stress Assignment in Reading Aloud: Critical Issues From Studies on Italian/doi:10.1080/10888438.2014.976340/rivista:Scientific studies of reading/anno:201
Date: 
2015
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/343277
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2014.976340
info:doi:10.1080/10888438.2014.976340
Language: 
Eng