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Abstract

When trying to assign a stressed syllable to the neologisms arrived to Galician from languages where stressing have no phonological value, the most recommended criterium for the choice is to point towards the most expected stressed syllable for Galician. However, which are the parameters that may have an influence on this choice? The initial hypothesis in a previous article by the same author was that this depend on the last grapheme of the word. In this article we will check this presumption and will analyse whether the number of syllables or the grammatical category may count too as parameters to predict a prototypical stress syllable. To contrast this hypothesis we will use data from VOLGA and from a corpus made of theatre texts as an example of language in use, and we will apply an algorithm to detect the stressed syllable
based on the graphic accents and the ending of the word written form. At the same time, we were able to analyse too the individual distributions for the grammatical category, the ending letter, the number of syllables or the position of the stressed syllable.