The role of predictability and structure in word stress processing: An ERP study on Cairene Arabic and a cross-linguistic comparison

This article presents neurolinguistic data on word stress perception in Cairene Arabic, in comparison to previous results on German and Turkish. The main goal is to investigate how central properties of stress systems such as predictability of stress and metrical structure are reflected in the proso...

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Main Authors: Ulrike eDomahs, Johannes Alexander Knaus, Heba eEl Shanawany, Richard eWiese
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01151/full