THE TYPE NUMEROSITY OF STRESS FRIENDS SPEEDS UP READING ALOUD OF ITALIAN WORDS WITH LESS FREQUENT STRESS PATTERN

10. Further issues If numerosity (types) (Kelly et al., 1999) rather than summed frequency (tokens) (Jared et al., 1993; Jared, 2002) of friends ? stress neighborhood effect with words matched for summed frequency and varying for numerosity of friends If stress neighborhood irrespective of stress regularity ? words with irregular stress but a larger set of friends should have faster naming latencies relative to words with regular stress but a much smaller set of friends If phonological effect ? effect on reading aloud, but not on lexical decision

14. Conclusions No support for a default �rule�for stress assignment (Colombo, 1992; Rastle & Coltheart, 2000, JML) (at least when stress neighborhood is large enough) The extraction of a relevant unit as a cue to stress assignment is favored when this unit is part of several different word contexts (several word types) Lexical activation of word neighbors, or consistency in print-to-sound mapping of sublexical units? Hard to disentangle the two possibilities Dual and single route models need further development to account for stress assignment to polisyllables