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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Phon. 2013 Nov;41(6):393–406. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2013.07.004

Table 2.

Disyllabic words selected from English, Hindi, and Telugu texts for analyzing lexical stress.

Language Trochaic pattern Iambic pattern
English after, nothing, something, stomach, story, temper, very, witnessed event, himself, respect, result
Hindi dekha, galti, gusse, jese, mani, niche, puja, pure ise, laddu, lekin, pakad
Telugu meda, mani, oka, pedda, peru, poṭṭa, puji, velli kopam, laddu, tatar