title: Naive subjects' assignments of stress ranks.
abstract: In three experiments, it is investigated to what extent naive listeners agree in ranking the stress of syllables in Dutch words. Four factors influencing the scores are isolated: the position of the primary stress, the awareness of rhythmic patterns, a tendency to assign prominence to the initial syllable and a segmental factor which disallows prominence on syllables with schwa. As these factors oppose or strengthen each other, they explain fluctuations in the subjects' agreement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Language and Speech, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Slootweg
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Rietveld
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D009426:Netherlands; D010700:Phonetics