Factors affecting stress placement for English nonwords include syllabic structure, lexical class, and stress patterns of phonologically similar words.
Guion Susan G, Clark J J, Harada Tetsuo, +1 more·Language and speech
Seventeen native English speakers participated in an investigation of language users' knowledge of English main stress patterns. First, they produced 40 two-syllable nonwords of varying syllabic structure as nouns and verbs. Second, they indicated their preference for first or second syllable stress of the same words i…