Perception of predictable stress: A cross-linguistic investigation
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In a sequence recall task with adult speakers of five languages with predictable stress and one language with non-predictable stress, it was found that speakers of all languages except Polish exhibited a strong stress “Deafness”, while Spanish speakers exhibited no such “deafnesses”.About:
This article is published in Journal of Phonetics.The article was published on 2010-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 104 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stress (linguistics) & Standard French.read more
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Fig. 1. Acoustic measurements of six tokens / " numi/ and six tokens /nu " mi/: duration of individual segments (a), F0 of tokens as a function of normalized duration (b), and intensity of individual segments (c). 
Table 2 Predictions stemming from four factors for the perception of stress (‘‘o ’’ means worse performance). 
Fig. 2. Boxplots of the stress ‘‘deafness’’ indices of the Standard French, Southeastern French, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, and Spanish groups. npo .02; nnnpo .0001.
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Learning about sounds contributes to learning about words: effects of prosody and phonotactics on infant word learning.
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that early word learning is shaped by prior knowledge of native language phonological regularities and provides support for the role of statistical learning in language acquisition.
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English speakers' perception of Spanish lexical stress: Context-driven L2 stress perception
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Processing of word-level stress by Mandarin-speaking second language learners of English
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TL;DR: It is found that precise English vowel perception and accurate English grammatical judgment were linked to lower psychoacoustic thresholds, better auditory‐motor integration, and more consistent frequency‐following responses to sound, suggesting that they are dissociable indexes of sound processing.
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