We take this result as evidence for the assumption that a final syllable is strong in words with antepenultimate stress irrespective of its structure.
In the second experiment, we investigated whether the difference in syllable structure in words with antepenultimate stress plays a role in the processing of stress.
A stressed antepenultimate vowel is part of a disyllabic (hence bimoraic) foot, so there is no phonological motivation for lengthening.
The problem, then, is how to get infixed -i- to ' spread ' to the antepenultimate syllable.
The antepenultimate syllable is the furthest left in a noun on which main stress can appear.
To limit stress placement, a potential underlying stress to the left of the antepenultimate syllable cannot surface.
Exceptions to penultimate stress arise due to lexically marked antepenultimate or final stress.
Two segments are truncated from the right edge of the imperfective, however, when the antepenultimate is a coronal followed by a high vowel (20c).
