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A cross -language study in perception of lexical stress in English.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A cross -language study in perception of lexical stress in English./
Author:	Yu, Ya-Ju (Vickie).
Description:	169 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-07, Section: A, page: 2525.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-07A.
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3315605
ISBN:	9780549668466

A cross -language study in perception of lexical stress in English.
Yu, Ya-Ju (Vickie).

A cross -language study in perception of lexical stress in English. - 169 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-07, Section: A, page: 2525.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 2008.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Research on how native language impacts listeners' speech perception has been overwhelming focused on segmental perception, leaving the impact of native language on the perception of suprasegmental information not well understood. To fill this gap, a cross-language study was conducted with 30 native English speakers and 30 native Chinese learners of English. The question of whether language background affects the perception of lexical stress in English was examined. Five experiments were conducted to address the research questions. In Experiment 1, a stressed-syllable identification task, and Experiment 2, a discrimination task, three types of two-syllable stimuli (real words, pseudowords, hums) were used. The results showed that both language groups were able to identify and discriminate stress patterns. However, the English and Chinese groups showed different response patterns to trochaic vs. iambic stress across the three types of stimuli. Lexical and segmental information affected the English and Chinese groups in varying degrees. A trochaic preference was found for English speakers whereas the Chinese speakers seemed to favor an iambic stress pattern. In Experiment 3, a lexical decision task, participants made lexical decision judgments on words with correct stress patterns and words that were mis-stressed. Different response patterns were found for English and Chinese groups in responding to mis-stressed words. The classic "Stroop effect" can explain these findings, which suggest a different perceptual bias for the English and Chinese groups. In Experiment 4, a grammatical decision task, two-syllable homographs (e.g., 'PERmit': noun, trochaic; 'perMIT': verb, iambic) were used in two carrier frames (noun frame: 'the ___'; verb frame: 'to ___') to test whether participants have knowledge of stress typicality. Both language groups demonstrated knowledge of stress typicality, but different response patterns were found for English and Chinese groups when they responded to ungrammatical phrases. The results were explained by language background. The results of these 4 perceptual experiments indicated that language background affects the perception of lexical stress in English.

ISBN: 9780549668466Subjects--Topical Terms:

524709
Communication.

A cross -language study in perception of lexical stress in English.
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520 $a The last experiment examined stress preference in production of two-syllable real words, two-syllable pseudowords and low frequency real words in two conditions (isolation vs. sentential context). English speakers showed a trochaic preference when producing pseudowords in isolation. Chinese speakers produced iambic stress more frequently than English speakers. This finding was consistent with those of the perceptual experiments. For pseudowords in sentences, a stress typicality effect was found for English speakers. In contrast, Chinese speakers exhibited a trochaic preference in producing pseudowords in sentences. The results for real low frequency English words cannot be fully explained by current data, and provide an area for further study.
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