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This document summarizes a study that challenges the view in theories of English phonology that syllable onset patterns are irrelevant to the assignment of lexical stress. The study analyzed stress patterns in a large sample of disyllabic English words and found that the incidence of trochaic (first syllable) stress increased significantly as the number of consonants in the word onset increased. Additional studies showed that English speakers were more likely to assign trochaic stress to pseudowords beginni

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Nhật Thịnh

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EN