Lexical stress representation in spoken word recognition.

Andrikopoulou, Angeliki; Protopapas, Athanassios; Arvaniti, Amalia

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“…However, our results mirror the observations for regular and irregular stress in other studies, such as Burani and Arduino (2004), which found no difference between regular and irregular patterns in Italian in a read-aloud task, and Andrikopoulou et al (2021), which found a priming effect (but no regularity effect) on participants' reaction times for stress patterns in Greek. In line with Andrikopoulou et al (2021), our results suggest that there is no particular representation for regular stress (or default stress, in their terms) in Portuguese. Our observations are also consistent with recent studies that found no processing differences between regular and irregular morphological patterns (see e.g., Nieder et al, 2021).…”

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“…However, examination of another language where stress is variable did not reveal any differences between regular and irregular patterns. Specifically, Andrikopoulou et al (2021) investigated whether regular and irregular stress in Greek (penultimate and antepenultimate, respectively, referred to as dominant and non-dominant by the authors) are retrieved differently in a series of experiments using eye-tracking. With both real and nonce words, participants responded faster to items with matching primes, regardless of stress position, which suggests that lexical representations in Greek are fully specified for stress.…”

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“…In some analyses, predictability in stress assignment may arise due to the pattern being subject to a rule (e.g., Hayes, 1982;Liberman & Prince, 1977). Other analyses assume that regular patterns are the most frequent (or dominant) in the language (e.g., Andrikopoulou et al, 2021;Burani & Arduino, 2004;Colombo & Sulpizio, 2015;Jouravlev & Lupker, 2014). Others propose that regular stress corresponds to (a) the most productive pattern in the language, in that it is the pattern chosen by native speakers for novel words (e.g., Hermans & Wetzels, 2012), or (b) the default pattern (e.g., Sulpizio & McQueen, 2012).…”

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Lexical access in Portuguese stress

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Categorical approaches to lexical stress typically assume that words have either regular or irregular stress, and imply that only the latter needs to be stored in the lexicon, while the former can be derived by rule. In this paper, we compare these two groups of words in a lexical decision task in Portuguese to examine whether the dichotomy in question affects lexical retrieval latencies in native speakers, which could indirectly reveal different processing patterns. Our results show no statistically credible effect of stress regularity on reaction times, even when lexical frequency, neighborhood density, and phonotactic probability are taken into consideration. The lack of an effect is consistent with a probabilistic approach to stress, not with a categorical (traditional) approach where syllables are either light or heavy and stress is either regular or irregular. We show that the posterior distribution of credible effect sizes of regularity is almost entirely (96.28%) within the region of practical equivalence, which provides strong evidence that no effect of regularity exists in the lexical decision data modelled. Frequency and phonotactic probability, in contrast, showed statistically credible effects given the experimental data modelled, which is consistent with the literature.

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Lexical access in Portuguese stress

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2022

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

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Do Cantonese listeners have a non-native advantage in English stress-related lexical decision?

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2024

Second Language Research

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Emerging evidence shows that non-native speakers can outperform native speakers in speech perception. This study investigated whether a non-native advantage in speech perception could feed forward to lexical decision. First language Cantonese and English listeners completed an English stress discrimination task, an English lexical decision task, and a non-verbal intelligence task. Perceptually, the Cantonese listeners showed a non-native advantage in English stress discrimination. In the English lexical decision task, the Cantonese listeners detected nonwords with second-syllable stress more accurately than did the English listeners, although this Cantonese advantage was only evident in the context without vowel reduction. In the context with vowel reduction, the Cantonese listeners still achieved a native-like accuracy. The results suggest that the Cantonese advantage in English stress perception can feed forward to lexical decision. However, this advantage is limited to second-syllable stressed nonwords without vowel reduction and does not apply to first-syllable stressed nonwords. Taken together, this study identified a non-native advantage in a stress-related lexical decision task and the limits of this advantage. Broadly, the findings highlight the theoretical need to account for non-native listener advantage at the lexical level.

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Lexical stress representation in spoken word recognition.

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Lexical access in Portuguese stress

Lexical access in Portuguese stress

Do Cantonese listeners have a non-native advantage in English stress-related lexical decision?

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