Abstract
Lexical stress in Hindi is not distinctive in nature. Past studies on Hindi stress system have an agreement that syllable weight is the most influencing feature for stress. In this paper, we investigate the change in the duration of syllable nucleus as an acoustic correlate of syllable weight. The duration is captured in four contexts—(i) vowel identity (ii) voiced/voiceless coda in closed syllables and (iii) word uttered after a stressed and an unstressed syllable. It is found that heavy syllables are prominent in limited context only. The prominence pattern of a heavy syllable is largely affected by aforementioned contexts. Moreover, it is also found that superheavy syllables are independent of these contexts and are always prominent.
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