Lexical Stress

Cutler, Anne

doi:10.1002/9780470757024.ch11

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“…It is the means by which intonation is encoded, and it is one of the cues signifying lexical stress ͑cf. Cutler, 2005;Vaissiere, 2005͒. Normal-hearing listeners generally produce very small F0 DLs when all harmonics exist and both place and temporal cues are present. Classic work demonstrated that the F0 DL for steady-state synthesized vowels is on the order of 0.3 to 0.5 Hz ͑Flanagan and Saslow, 1958͒.…”

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Sensitivity to isolated and concurrent intensity and fundamental frequency increments by cochlear implant users under natural listening conditions

Rogers

Healy

Montgomery

2006

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Sensitivity to acoustic cues in cochlear implant (CI) listening under natural conditions is a potentially complex interaction between a number of simultaneous factors, and may be difficult to predict. In the present study, sensitivity was measured under conditions that approximate those of natural listening. Synthesized words having increases in intensity or fundamental frequency (F0) in a middle stressed syllable were presented in soundfield to normal-hearing listeners and to CI listeners using their everyday speech processors and programming. In contrast to the extremely fine sensitivity to electrical current observed when direct stimulation of single electrodes is employed, difference limens (DLs) for intensity were larger for the CI listeners by a factor of 2.4. In accord with previous work, F0 DLs were larger by almost one order of magnitude. In a second experiment, it was found that the presence of concurrent intensity and F0 increments reduced the mean DL to half that of either cue alone for both groups of subjects, indicating that both groups combine concurrent cues with equal success. Although sensitivity to either cue in isolation was not related to word recognition in CI users, the listeners having lower combined-cue thresholds produced better word recognition scores.

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Sensitivity to isolated and concurrent intensity and fundamental frequency increments by cochlear implant users under natural listening conditions

Rogers

Healy

Montgomery

2006

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…It is clear that the suprasegmental dimension of stress realisation is not attenuated in English; acoustic differences between syllables differing in the level of stress they bear are robust (see e.g. Cutler, 2005), and as just noted, Dutch listeners can make use of these acoustic cues as efficiently in English as in their native language. Also, recognition of English speech requires listeners to use information in the same suprasegmental dimensions in which lexical stress is realised; durational differences cue final voicing and phrase boundary placement, for example, and intonational contours are exploited to locate salient information or to process syntax (e.g.…”

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Stress Effects in Vowel Perception as a Function of Language-Specific Vocabulary Patterns

Warner

Cutler

2016

Phonetica

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Background/Aims: Evidence from spoken word recognition suggests that for English listeners, distinguishing full versus reduced vowels is important, but discerning stress differences involving the same full vowel (as in mu- from music or museum) is not. In Dutch, in contrast, the latter distinction is important. This difference arises from the relative frequency of unstressed full vowels in the two vocabularies. The goal of this paper is to determine how this difference in the lexicon influences the perception of stressed versus unstressed vowels. Methods: All possible sequences of two segments (diphones) in Dutch and in English were presented to native listeners in gated fragments. We recorded identification performance over time throughout the speech signal. The data were here analysed specifically for patterns in perception of stressed versus unstressed vowels. Results: The data reveal significantly larger stress effects (whereby unstressed vowels are harder to identify than stressed vowels) in English than in Dutch. Both language-specific and shared patterns appear regarding which vowels show stress effects. Conclusion: We explain the larger stress effect in English as reflecting the processing demands caused by the difference in use of unstressed vowels in the lexicon. The larger stress effect in English is due to relative inexperience with processing unstressed full vowels.

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“…identical sequences of vowels and consonants that are distinct only in the stress pattern, hardly occur in these languages (e.g. Cutler 2005). However, word prosody becomes more important as the segmental information is unreliable, as happens in speech spoken with a foreign accent.…”

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The effect of prosody awareness training on the performance of consecutive interpretation by Farsi-English interpreter trainees: an experimental study

Yenkimaleki

Heuven

2016

Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies

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This study investigates the effect of prosody awareness training on the performance of Farsi-English interpreter trainees. Two groups of student interpreters were formed. All were native speakers of Farsi who studied English translation and interpreting at the BA level at the State University of Arak, Iran. Participants were assigned to groups at random, but with equal division between genders (8 female and 8 male students in each group). At the beginning of the program, all the participants took a pretest of general English proficiency. No significant differences in English language skills (TOEFL scores) could be established between the groups. Three expert raters assessed quality measures of interpreting performance in both a pretest and a post-test. All rating scales that pertain to prosodic aspects in the trainees' interpreting performance, proved susceptible to the explicit teaching of prosody. The results of the study showed that explicit teaching of prosody statistically did have a positive effect on the overall interpreting performance by Farsi-English interpreter trainees. The pedagogical implications of the present study would pertain to interpreting programs all over the world. Course developers should take these results into considerations and include contrastive prosody in the textbooks for interpreting programs.

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Lexical Stress

Cited by 92 publications

References 80 publications

Sensitivity to isolated and concurrent intensity and fundamental frequency increments by cochlear implant users under natural listening conditions

Sensitivity to isolated and concurrent intensity and fundamental frequency increments by cochlear implant users under natural listening conditions

Stress Effects in Vowel Perception as a Function of Language-Specific Vocabulary Patterns

The effect of prosody awareness training on the performance of consecutive interpretation by Farsi-English interpreter trainees: an experimental study

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