title: Q2Stress: A database for multiple cues to stress assignment in Italian.
abstract: In languages where the position of lexical stress within a word is not predictable from print, readers rely on distributional information extracted from the lexicon in order to assign stress. Lexical databases are thus especially important for researchers willing to address stress assignment in those languages. Here we present Q2Stress, a new database aimed to fill the lack of such a resource for Italian. Q2Stress includes multiple cues readers may use in assigning stress, such as type and token frequency of stress patterns as well as their distribution with respect to number of syllables, grammatical category, word beginnings, word endings, and consonant-vowel structures. Furthermore, for the first time, data for both adults and children are available. Q2Stress may help researchers to answer empirical as well as theoretical questions about stress assignment and stress-related issues, and more in general, to explore the orthography-to-phonology relation in reading. Q2Stress is designed as a user-friendly resource, as it comes with scripts allowing researchers to explore and select their own stimuli according to several criteria as well as summary tables for overall data analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C2, Canada. gspinel@uwo.ca.
authors.forename: Giacomo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Spinelli
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.|Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sulpizio
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, CNR, Rome, Italy.|Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003463:Cues; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading
keywords: Database; Italian; Reading; Stress assignment; Word recognition