Acoustic cues to features for Italian vowels as a function of lexical stress and tonal prominence

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. A71-A71
Author(s):  
Ian Chan ◽  
Alec DeCaprio ◽  
Javier Arango ◽  
Luca De Nardis ◽  
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Stress ◽  
Acoustic Cues

Perception of lexical stress in Spanish L2 by French speakers

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-190
Author(s):  
Joaquim Llisterri ◽  
Sandra Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Lexical Stress ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Native Spanish Speakers

Three experiments on the perception of lexical stress in Spanish (a free-stress language) by speakers of French (a fixed-stress language) are discussed in this chapter. The main goal of these experiments is to further investigate the effect of an ‘accentual filter’ that may lead to a stress ‘deafness’ in native speakers of a fixed-stress language. Taken together, the results of the three experiments lead to the conclusion that French speakers are not only sensitive to the acoustic cues that convey stress prominences in Spanish, but are also able, after a short training, to encode and retrieve the accentual information in a small lexicon of Spanish pseudowords. However, it appears that French listeners do not always rely on the same acoustic cues as the ones used by native Spanish speakers and that their representations of the accentual patterns seem to be less flexible than the native ones.

Neural correlates of acoustic cues of English lexical stress in Cantonese-speaking children

2014 ◽  
Vol 138 ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuhong Tong ◽  
Catherine McBride ◽  
Juan Zhang ◽  
Kevin K.H. Chung ◽  
Chia-Ying Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Lexical Stress ◽  
Acoustic Cues

Acoustic correlates of lexical stress in Uyghur

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahire Yakup ◽  
Joan A. Sereno
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Pitch Accent ◽  
Lexical Stress ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Acoustic Parameters ◽  
Acoustic Correlates ◽  
Minimal Pairs ◽  
Stress Patterns

The present study examined lexical stress patterns in Uyghur, a Turkic language. The main goal of this research was to isolate and determine which acoustic parameters provide cues to stress in Uyghur. A number of studies have investigated the phonetic correlates of lexical stress across the world's languages, with stressed syllables often longer in duration, higher in pitch, and greater in amplitude. The present study systematically investigated the acoustic cues to stress in Uyghur, examining duration, fundamental frequency, and amplitude. Three experiments were conducted: one utilizing minimal pairs in Uyghur, one examining disyllabic nouns in Uyghur that contrasted in the first syllable, and one investigating the interaction of lexical stress with Uyghur sentence intonation. The data consistently show that duration was a robust cue to stress in Uyghur, with less consistent effects for intensity. The data also clearly show that fundamental frequency was not a cue to lexical stress in Uyghur. Uyghur does not use the fundamental frequency to distinguish stressed from unstressed syllables. The results suggest that Uyghur does not pattern like a pitch-accent language (e.g. Turkish), but rather like a stress-accent language.

Lexical Stress Effects in Silent Reading

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara E. Breen ◽  
Charles E. Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Silent Reading ◽  
Lexical Stress ◽  
Stress Effects

Lexical Stress in Urdu

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benazir Mumtaz ◽  
Tina Bögel ◽  
Miriam Butt
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Stress
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