Acoustic Correlates of English Lexical Stress Produced by Chinese Dialect Speakers Compared to Native English Speakers

Guo, Xingrong

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.796252

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“…Regardless of the need to investigate the type of errors Arab EFL learners face in the production of English Lexical stress, researchers from different contextual backgrounds have asserted the importance of studying the dialectal variation of the participants involved in studying lexical stress production (Guo, 2022;Kallio et al, 2022). That is because some regional dialects manifest different phonology systems, which result in various findings.…”

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“…Due to differences in stress patterns among Arabic dialects, the producibility of stress patterns in Arabic cannot be generalised. Therefore, there is a need to investigate the effect of dialectal stress patterns when differences exist to ensure more reliable data, as recommended by Koffi (2021) and Guo (2022).…”

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“…Several studies have speculated on the significance of the stress pattern in English speech (Field, 2005;Flege & Bohn, 1989;Fry, 1959;Ghosh & Levis, 2021;Guo, 2022;Jenkins, 2002;Ladefoged & Johnson, 2015;Lai, 2008;Lee et al, 2019;Levis, 2018;Misfer & Busabaa, 2019;Zhang et al, 2008;Zuraiq & Sereno, 2021). According to their findings, mastering the production of English stress patterns improves the intelligibility of English oral communication.…”

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Predictability Effect of Arabic Stress Pattern in English Lexical Stress Production by Arab EFL Undergraduates

Saleh Baagbah,

Jaganathan

2024

JSSH

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The present study investigates the effect of Arabic lexical stress predictability in producing English lexical stress by Yemeni EFL undergraduates and native Hadhrami Arabic (HA) speakers. The study involved the participation of 69 Yemeni EFL undergraduates with two varying levels of English proficiency. Additionally, 10 American native speakers were included to evaluate the correct production of English stress patterns by the Yemeni EFL undergraduates. The authors adopt the Metrical Theory and the Stress Typology Model to underpin the grounds of this study. Data from the study were collected through a production experiment using individual recording sessions for each participant reading 84 English real and nonce words. The differences between stressed and unstressed syllables were measured using phonetic cues ratios, vowel duration, intensity, and fundamental frequency (F0), analysed through PRAAT software. The findings suggest that the production of English lexical stress by Yemeni EFL undergraduates is influenced by HA. However, the predictability of the Arabic stress pattern does not always trigger errors in producing English lexical stress by Yemeni EFL undergraduates. Findings indicate that Yemeni EFL undergraduates are more attentive to vowel weight, especially when the ultimate syllable incorporates a tense vowel. It stands in contrast to the conventional approach of syllable structure, which places a more pronounced emphasis on instructing English vowels among Arab ELF learners as a result of Arabic dialectal variation.

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Predictability Effect of Arabic Stress Pattern in English Lexical Stress Production by Arab EFL Undergraduates

Saleh Baagbah,

Jaganathan

2024

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“…First of all, most Chinese students often do not have a good sense of language when they pronounce vowels, and it is difficult to distinguish the timbre and pitch of vowels, which makes it difficult for them to achieve accuracy when imitating English vowels. In addition, Chinese students usually bring the phonological habits of their mother tongue into English phonetic learning [6], resulting in various deviations in vowel pronunciation. For example, many Chinese students fail to distinguish between front vowels and back vowels in English and pronounce them as similar sounds, which gives people the impression that their English pronunciation is not standard enough.…”

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The Influence of Stress Position on English Vowel Pronunciation and Its Significance for Phonological Acquisition of Chinese Students

Fang

2023

LNEP

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Pronunciation is an important part of English learning. Vowel pronunciation, in particular, is an obstacle that learners often encounter. Various literature and experiments have suggested that when Chinese students learn English, they often make pronunciation deviations or errors because of the differences between their native vowels and English vowel pronunciation. Therefore, it is of far-reaching significance to study the influence of the position of stress in words on the pronunciation of English vowels. The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of the position of stress in words on the pronunciation of English vowels, and to apply the results to the acquisition of English pronunciation by Chinese students. Through data and information analysis, a method is expected to be found to improve the quality of English pronunciation acquisition, and provide theoretical and practical support for English teaching. The results of this study show that the stress position in a word has a certain influence on the pronunciation of English vowels, and the pronunciation of vowels in different positions is obviously different, through which practical suggestions for Chinese students' English pronunciation acquisition can be provided, such as more targeted training for different vowel pronunciation.

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The Effects of Speech Task on Lexical Stress in Parkinson's Disease

Exner

Francis

MacPherson

et al. 2023

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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Purpose: Hypokinetic dysarthria associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by dysprosody, yet the literature is mixed with respect to how dysprosody affects the ability to mark lexical stress, possibly due to differences in speech tasks used to assess lexical stress. The purpose of this study was to compare how people with and without PD modulate acoustic dimensions of lexical stress—fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration—to mark lexical stress across three different speech tasks. Method: Twelve individuals with mild-to-moderate idiopathic PD and 12 age- and sex-matched older adult controls completed three speech tasks: picture description, word production in isolation, and word production in lists. Outcome measures were the fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration of the vocalic segments of two trochees (initial stress) and two iambs (final stress) spoken in all three tasks. Results: There were very few group differences. Both groups marked trochees by modulating intensity and fundamental frequency and iambs by modulating duration. Task had a significant impact on the stress patterns used by both groups. Stress patterns were most differentiated in words produced in isolation and least differentiated in lists of words. Conclusions: People with PD did not demonstrate impairments in the production of lexical stress, suggesting that dysprosody associated with PD does not impact all types of prosody in the same way. However, there were reduced distinctions in stress marking that were more apparent in trochees than iambs. In addition, the task used to assess prosody has a significant effect on all acoustic measures. Future research should focus on the use of connected speech tasks to obtain more generalizable measures of prosody in PD.

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Acoustic Correlates of English Lexical Stress Produced by Chinese Dialect Speakers Compared to Native English Speakers

Cited by 4 publications

References 56 publications

Predictability Effect of Arabic Stress Pattern in English Lexical Stress Production by Arab EFL Undergraduates

Predictability Effect of Arabic Stress Pattern in English Lexical Stress Production by Arab EFL Undergraduates

The Influence of Stress Position on English Vowel Pronunciation and Its Significance for Phonological Acquisition of Chinese Students

The Effects of Speech Task on Lexical Stress in Parkinson's Disease

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