Shows that for the database in this study, analogy correctly assigns Spanish stress in 94% of the instances and is able to thresh out significant sub-patterns in Spanish stress placement without resorting to rules or schemas. (Author/VWL)

Examines different approaches to prosodic acquisition: Gerken's S(W) production template; Fikkert's and Archibald's theories of stress acquisition and Demuth and Fee's prosodic hierarchy account. Results reveal that current approaches cannot account for findings in the data such as the increased preservation of final over nonfinal unstressed…