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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"word stress"”.
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Acoustic correlates of word stress in American English
… parameters that differentiate between primary stress and non-primary full vowels were determined using two-syllable real and novel words and specially constructed novel words with identical syllable compositions. The location of the high focal pitch accent within a declarative carrier phrase …
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High variability pronunciation training for word stress in English
… study investigates the use of HVPT to train word stress in English, including its effectiveness, generalization to new voices and new words, and how it affects production. Additionally, the impact of word familiarity on perception is also explored. Word stress is an crucial feature to train …
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An optimality-theoretic analysis of stress in the English of native Arabic speakers
… study is to analyze the acquisition of English word-stress by Arabic speakers in light of advancements in Optimality Theory. It has been reported that Arab second language learners of English have difficulty in acquiring the various patterns of English word stress. According to OT, the reason …
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Production of German L2 Stress by Native Speakers of English
The production of word stress in a second language (L2) is one area of difficulty for language learners. Previous studies have shown that correct word stress may be more important for the comprehensibility of non-native speech than grammatical accuracy. Studies indicate that incorrect stress …
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Effects of Prosody-Based Instruction and Self-Assessment in L2 Speech Development
… n = 28 for the FFI + SA group) received FFI on word stress, rhythm, and intonation, practiced the target prosodic features in communicative contexts, and received metalinguistic feedback from the instructor. In total, the experimental groups received six-hours of instruction in class, which was …
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Stress as a Cultural Tool in Higher Education
… age and nontraditional age students use the word stress as a cultural tool in their college adjustment process. This topic is explored through Vygotsky’s concept of language understood as a cultural tool, enacting meaning as developed through socio-cultural relations (1978). Three research …
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Phonological Awareness and Foreign Accent: A Handbook for German EFL Teachers
… aspects of American English pronunciation: word stress and sentence stress.</p>
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Syllable "sonority" hierarchy and the stress patterns in Pulaar. A metrical approach
… a four-way-weight distinction. I argue that word stress assignment in Pulaar is heavily dependent upon the ""sonority"" of the syllables in the string. Four sonority levels emerge: CV $<$ CVC $<$ CVV $<$ CVVC. CVVC is more ""sonorous"" than CVV which is more ""sonorous"" than CVC which in …
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Converging evidence on the autonomy and abstractness of the representation of lexical stress
… reported in the thesis investigate the nature of word stress and its lexical representation. Focusing on Italian, I considered two research questions: How is lexical stress represented? How does this representation intervene in perceiving or producing a word? Italian is a polysyllabic language …
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Modular interactions in phonology
… of phonology: (1) The computation of stress takes place in a distinct cognitive module from segmental phonology. This module is informationally encapsulated from segmental features. (2) Phonological generalizations over underlying representations can be captured in the lexicon. The …
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Style in Performance: The Prosody of Poetic Recitation.
… have either confined themselves to metre and word-stress patterns, prosodic properties that are inherent in the text, or, if they have investigated performance, have done so unsystematically. The present investigation of performance is then introduced, and the prosodic patterns of the text …
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Stress in the Beginning Spanish Classroom: An Instructional Study
Typologically, stress in Spanish and English is similar in that both languages have variable word stress. However, research done by Cutler (1986) and Soto-Faraco, Sebastian-Galles, & Cutler (2001) investigating the role of stress on lexical access indicates that there are psycholinguistic …
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The effects of self-monitoring strategy use on the pronunciation of learners of English
… were message unit boundaries, primary phrase stress, intonation, vowel reduction in content and function words, linking, word stress, and multiword construction stress. Fifteen graduate-level learners of English (14 Mandarin speakers, 1 Korean speaker) from an intact English as a Second …
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Design, Characterization and Analysis of Component Level Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection Solutions
… the semiconductor industry. To emulate the real word stress condition, several ESD stress models and test methods have been developed. The basic ESD models are Human Body model (HBM), Machine Mode (MM), and Charge Device Model (CDM). For the system-level ESD robustness, it is defined by different …