The other words in the list carried stress identical to that of the "less-preferred" pronunciation of the ambiguous words, as determined unknowingly by the subjects beforehand. This word in each list was phonetically ambiguous, its syllabic stress dependent upon whether its syntactic function was that of a noun or a verb. The last word in each list was to be read aloud.
To test for this suprasegmental coding, an experiment was conducted in which subjects were given word lists to read silently.
In silent reading, short-memory tasks, such as semantic and syntactic processing, require a stage of phonetic encoding between visual representation and the actual extraction of meaning, and this encoding includes prosodic as well as segmental features.
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