This study assumes that the internal structure of vowels consists combination elements which can be iterated. According to previous research, it is also assumed element iteration in Portuguese provides with inherent weight; word-finally, such are stress-attractors. Notwithstanding, has a great amount words unstressed final [u] (i.e., vowel consisting {U}), as case inflected forms nouns and adje...

In the present research we investigated the perception of Spanish stress in German-speaking listeners in comparison with native Spanish listeners. We used a cognitively demanding Odd-One-Out task and stimuli with variability in voice and/or in intonation. The main findings showed that the German-speaking listeners were able to perceive the Spanish lexical stress to a very high degree (76% of co...

Dagaare (Gur) is a two-tone language of northwestern Ghana with approximately 1,000,000 native speakers. Most of the canonical disyllabic nominals fall into three tonal classes: L-H, H-L and H-H. In the rst two, the second tone is a polarity tone: a su x assumes the opposite tone to that of the root. L-L is systematically absent. Based on our primary descriptive work, supplemented by the eldnot...

This study of lexical stress in English is part of a series of studies, the goal of which is to describe the acoustics of lexical stress for a number of typologically different languages. When fully developed the methodology should be applicable to any language. The database of recordings so far includes Brazilian Portuguese, English (U.K.), Estonian, German, French, Italian and Swedish. The ac...

Two visual world experiments tested the hypothesis that expectations based on preceding prosody influence the perception of suprasegmental cues to lexical stress. Experiment 1 showed that phonemically overlapping words with different initial stress patterns compete for recognition. Experiment 2 further demonstrated that fundamental frequency and syllable timing patterns across material precedin...

The study reported in this paper investigated the abilities of Greek speakers with dysarthria to signal lexical stress at the single word level. Three speakers with dysarthria and two unimpaired control participants were recorded completing a repetition task of a list of words consisting of minimal pairs of Greek disyllabic words contrasted by lexical stress location only. Fourteen listeners we...

Eye-movement research on implicit prosody has found effects of lexical stress on syntactic ambiguity resolution, suggesting that metrical well-formedness constraints interact with syntactic category assignment. Building on these findings, the present eyetracking study investigates whether contextual bias can modulate the effects of metrical structure on syntactic ambiguity resolution in silent ...

Fundamental frequency (F0) variation is one of a number of acoustic cues normal hearing listeners use for guiding lexical segmentation of degraded speech. This study examined whether F0 contour facilitates lexical segmentation by listeners fitted with cochlear implants (CIs). Lexical boundary error patterns elicited under unaltered and flattened F0 conditions were compared across three groups: ...