Acoustic correlates of word stress: A cross-linguistic survey

Gordon, Matthew; Roettger, Timo B.

doi:10.1515/lingvan-2017-0007

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“…Irrespective of the actual annotation, we can look at different acoustic domains. For example, a particular acoustic parameter such as duration or pitch can be operationalized differently with respect to its domain and the way it is assessed: In their survey of over a hundred acoustic studies on word stress correlates, Gordon and Roettger (2017) encountered dozens of different approaches how to quantitatively operationalize f 0 , intensity and spectral tilt as correlates of word stress. Some studies took the whole syllable as a domain, others targeted the mora, the rhyme, the coda, or individual segments.…”

Section: Operationalizing Chosen Parametersmentioning

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Researcher degrees of freedom in phonetic research

Roettger

2019

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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The results of published research critically depend on methodological decisions that have been made during data analysis. These so-called 'researcher degrees of freedom' (Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn, 2011) can affect the results and the conclusions researchers draw from it. It is argued that phonetic research faces a large number of researcher degrees of freedom due to its scientific object-speech-being inherently multidimensional and exhibiting complex interactions between multiple covariates. A Type-I error simulation is presented that demonstrates the severe inflation of false positives when exploring researcher degrees of freedom. It is argued that combined with common cognitive fallacies, exploitation of researcher degrees of freedom introduces strong bias and poses a serious challenge to quantitative phonetics as an empirical science. This paper discusses potential remedies for this problem including adjusting the threshold for significance; drawing a clear line between confirmatory and exploratory analyses via preregistration; open, honest, and transparent practices in communicating data analytical decisions; and direct replications.

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Section: Operationalizing Chosen Parametersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Researcher degrees of freedom in phonetic research

Roettger

2019

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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“…The acoustic correlates of stress have been shown to include duration, F0, overall intensity, frequency-sensitive intensity (spectral balance) and formant frequencies (F1/F2). Gordon and Roettger (2017) surveyed 110 studies on 75 languages and found that although duration was the most frequently observed cue to stress, all of these cues played a role of some kind in most of the languages surveyed. The relative strength of different cues appears to vary across languages, however.…”

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Is there an interlanguage intelligibility benefit in perception of English word stress?

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Hellmuth

2019

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This paper asks whether there is an ‘interlanguage intelligibility benefit’ in perception of word-stress, as has been reported for global sentence recognition. L1 English listeners, and L2 English listeners who are L1 speakers of Arabic dialects from Jordan and Egypt, performed a binary forced-choice identification task on English near-minimal pairs (such as[ˈɒbdʒɛkt] ~ [əbˈdʒɛkt]) produced by an L1 English speaker, and two L2 English speakers from Jordan and Egypt respectively. The results show an overall advantage for L1 English listeners, which replicates the findings of an earlier study for general sentence recognition, and which is also consistent with earlier findings that L1 listeners rely more on structural knowledge than on acoustic cues in stress perception. Non-target-like L2 productions of words with final stress (which are primarily cued in L1 production by vowel reduction in the initial unstressed syllable) were less accurately recognized by L1 English listeners than by L2 listeners, but there was no evidence of a generalized advantage for L2 listeners in response to other L2 stimuli.

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“…Por lo tanto, ninguno de los parámetros analizados indica que exista prominencia acentual en los posesivos (mi) de los dialectos del norte de España, ni siquiera en Asturias, donde más se ha destacado este rasgo (RAE y AALE, 2009;Pato, 2015). Dado que la duración de la vocal y las diferencias de amplitud son los dos correlatos acústicos más importantes del acento léxico en español (Ortega-Llebaria y Prieto, 2007Prieto, , 2011, y especialmente la duración lo es en la mayoría de las lenguas (Gordon y Roettger, 2017), estos resultados suponen un importante argumento para sostener que los posesivos en el norte de España no están léxicamente acentuados.…”

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