An automatic method to assign lexical stress in Italian from a written text is presented here. This method is based on specific morphological properties of the Italian morphemes, which can only be stressed on the last or the penultimate syllable. Using a morphological analyzer and a morpheme database, the assignment program attempts to analyze each entry into a morpheme followed by one or more suffixes and flexions, which can contain a stressable syllable. The resulting stressed syllable is determined by applying a simple final stress rule to these elements.
Cite as: Martin, P. (1989) Automatic assignment of lexical stress in Italian. Proc. First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1989), 1222-1225, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1989-24
@inproceedings{martin89_eurospeech,
author={Philippe Martin},
title={{Automatic assignment of lexical stress in Italian}},
year=1989,
booktitle={Proc. First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1989)},
pages={1222--1225},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1989-24}
}