the way syllables are stressed in a word, phrase, language, etc
Researchers have found that young babies are sensitive to intonation and stress patternsin speech.
words that have the typical English stress pattern of stressing the first syllable
Examples of 'stress pattern' in a sentence
stress pattern
In reading nonwords they usually applied the regular stress pattern.
Alessia Folegatti, Lorenzo Pia, Anna Berti, Roberto Cubelli 2015, 'Stress Assignment Errors in Surface Dyslexia: Evidence from Two Italian Patients witha Selective Deficit of the Orthographic Input Lexicon', Behavioural Neurologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/769013. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In rhythmic languages the general stress pattern conveys important information about word boundaries.
Niki Katerina Vavatzanidis, Niki Katerina Vavatzanidis, Dirk eMürbe, Angela DorkasFriederici, Anja eHahne 2016, 'The perception of stress pattern in young cochlear implanted children: an EEG study',Frontiers in Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2016.00068/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)