Incorrect Stress Placement in the Case of Arab Learners of English

Anani, Mohammad

doi:10.1515/iral.1989.27.1.15

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“…While the majority of papers explore the L2 production of segments, a few, more recent articles, investigate prosody. Some of the latter look into stress placement, either at the phrase or at the lexical level (see, e.g., Anani (1989) on English lexical stress Jordanian Arabic learners; Guion, 2005, on English stress by native speakers of Korean speakers; Ploquin, 2009, on English rhythm and lexical stress second language English by native speakers of two varieties of French; Kijak, 2009, on the production of Polish stress by native speakers of Russian, Czech, German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese). Other studies measure prosodic correlates -fundamental frequency (F0) or duration or intensity -produced by native or non-native speakers of a language (see e.g.…”

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Prosodic Transfer: From Chinese Lexical tone to English Pitch Accent

Ploquin

2013

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Chinese tones are associated with a syllable to convey meaning, English pitch accents are prominence markers associated with stressed syllables. As both are created by pitch modulation, their pitch contours can be quite similar. The experiment reported here examines whether native speakers of Chinese produce, when speaking English, the Chinese tone whose phonetic contour most closely matches the contour of the intended English pitch accent. Six native speakers of Chinese recorded English and Chinese sentences, all including the segment [fan]. Results show that the subjects produced a Chinese tone 2 where a rising pitch accents was required and thus that speakers of Chinese rely on their lexical tones inventory to produce English prosody. The results obtained with falling pitch accents are much less conclusive partly because of the difficulty in measuring tone 3 due to the high level of creak that accompanies it.

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Prosodic Transfer: From Chinese Lexical tone to English Pitch Accent

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2013

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“…Distinct patterns of stress placement are reported in the Englishes of native speakers of tonal languages such as Nigerian English (Atoye, 1991;Schmied, 1991), Singapore English 1 (Tongue, 1974;Platt, 1982;Tay, 1982;Alsagoff, 1983;Ng, 1985;Chua, 1990), and the Englishes of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers (Juffs, 1990;Wong, 1991). While Mandarin and Cantonese speakers and the majority of Nigerian and Singapore English speakers have tonal languages as their mother tongues, native speakers of stress languages are known to assign stress differently in English as well: Arabic (Anani, 1989;Aziz, 1980), German (Erdmann, 1973), Polish (Archibald 1992), Portuguese (Matos and Cintra, 1966;Baptista, 1989) and Spanish (Mairs, 1989).…”

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Stress and duration in three varieties of English

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Ann

2001

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This paper investigates stress placement in the English of Spanish speakers, Nigerian English and Singapore English. This investigation reveals that they have in common several patterns of stress placement that are distinct from British or American English. We show that these patterns cannot be accounted for by transfer. A different explanation is suggested, one that explains the recurrent patterns in terms of English vowel duration. It is proposed that in determining stress in multisyllabic words, L2 speakers assess the duration of syllable nuclei and assign stress to the syllable containing the longest vowel. In contrast with transfer, which holds L2 speakers' first languages responsible, this proposal attributes the distinct patterns of stress placement to the target language, making possible a unified account of the shared patterns in the three varieties of English. As L2 speakers, regardless of their first languages, grapple with the same target language, it should have a similar effect, giving rise to the common patterns of stress placement in the three varieties of English.

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“…Stemberger, 1983), and it can be misplaced in both first and second language acquisition (e.g. Klein, 1984;Kehoe and Stoel-Gammon, 1996;Baptista, 1989;Anani, 1989). A further consequence of the representational independence of stress is its cross-dialectal and crosslinguistic variability.…”

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“…Numerous regional (and other) variants of English from all around the globe also show such variation. Cases in point include Chicano English (Penfield and Ornstein-Galicia, 1985), Indian English (Vermeer, 1969), Singaporean English (Tay, 1982), Australian English (Saito, 1990), New Zealand English (Bauer, 1986), Cameroon English (Simo-Bobda, 1994), Nigerian English (Atoye, 1991) and possibly Caribbean English (Wells, 1982).…”

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Stress Variation in British and American English

Berg

1999

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This study presents a comprehensive analysis of lexical-stress variation in British and American English. A comparison of the pronunciations of all 75,000 entries in Wells's dictionary yields 932 stress-divergent words. This set is found to differ from the entire lexicon in three respects of which the first appears to be more important than the others. The average frequency of the words is lower and their average length is higher. Furthermore, proper nouns are overrepresented. Generally, main stress falls further to the left in British than in American English, with the latter variety accommodating stress more in the word edges than the former. Lexical type (proper vs. common nouns) and origin (French vs. nonFrench) form categories which are differentially treated in the two dialects. Stress variation occurs in monomorphemic as well as polymorphemic words. Endings which play a variable role in the stressassignment process include h-atej, h-essj, h-istj, h-ivej, h-lyj and h-oryj. Variation can also be observed in compounds and zero-derived items. In all these lexical sets, stress-identical words outnumber stressdivergent ones. With some reservation, a case is made for regarding British English as the more rhythmical of the two varieties. It is argued that frequency, or rather the lack thereof, weakens the memory trace for lexical items. This destabilization paves the way for variation by allowing different forces to act on the same words.

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Incorrect Stress Placement in the Case of Arab Learners of English

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Prosodic Transfer: From Chinese Lexical tone to English Pitch Accent

Prosodic Transfer: From Chinese Lexical tone to English Pitch Accent

Stress and duration in three varieties of English

Stress Variation in British and American English

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