Stress consistency and stress regularity effects in Russian

This paper presents findings from the analysis of a Russian word corpus and two studies assessing the effects of stress consistency and stress regularity on performance in naming and lexical decision tasks. An examination of the impact of stress in Russian is particularly interesting because, although there is no regular stress pattern overall, first-syllable stress is regular for adjectives. The results demonstrated a processing advantage for regularly stressed adjectives in both tasks. For nouns and verbs, which have no clear regular stress pattern, no differences in the processing of initial- vs. final-stressed words were observed. Further, an advantage in the processing of words with consistent vs. inconsistent spelling-to-stress mappings was detected for all words in naming, but only for irregularly stressed adjectives in lexical decision. These findings provide evidence that readers are sensitive to both stress consistency and stress regularity even when regularity exists only for words of a single grammatical category.

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