In sum, all that can be said is that, some of the time, children showed an awareness of minimal forms in their disyllabic productions.
In that study, monosyllabic adjectives were manipulated for both frequency and gradability and disyllabic adjectives of different ending types, for frequency only.
The findings indicate that the accent range of disyllabic tones in trochaic utterances was wider than that of monosyllabic tones in iambic utterances.
The fourth word contains an initial stressed closed syllable in a disyllabic word.
In each of the /g/ and /k/ conditions, children spelled 24 disyllabic words with first-syllable stress.
The second condition implied similarity of the first syllables in disyllabic items.
Though optimally disyllabic, this notion is not the same as the metrical foot, and is not part of the familiar prosodic hierarchy.
It introduces a bias which, in combination with the rhythmic alternation rule, encourages the emergence of disyllabic adjectives with a trochaic stress pattern.
