A Study of the Use of English Sentence Stress for the Comprehension of Meaning by Adult Second Language Learners (Psycholinguistics, Arabic, Spanish, Acquisition)

Research interest in the prosody of English has increased in recent years and has resulted in detailed descriptions of some of the prosodic features of the language. There is also now evidence that the prosodic features are vital to communication. One of these features, linguistic stress, is believed to mark the most important information in a sentence, whether it is new information, a crucial contrast, or a discourse control signal to the listener. At this time, however, little is known about the use of spoken English sentential stress by second language learners.

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Ph.D.

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Dissertation

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Education

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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2014

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• Works, Nancy Mckinney

• Language, Linguistics

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(UMI)AAI8600349

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69033