Greek is a language with lexical stress that marks stress orthographically with a special diacritic. Thus, the orthography and the lexicon constitute potential sources of stress assignment information in addition to any possible general default metrical pattern. Here, we report two experiments with secondary education children reading aloud…

Investigates the relationship between performance in phonemic segmentation and reading and writing ability. Finds that onset-rime distinction is relevant for segmentation, while word meaning is not. Concludes that a serial model of segmentation is inadequate, and that an articulatory rather than a phonological code is the object of segmentation.…