Assuming that categorical differentiation is major acoustic characteristics of English lexical stress through binary instead of more complex 3-way distinction, we investigated lexical stress in broad and narrow focus positions and found how binary distinction is achieved by the concomitancy of secondary stress defined by its position and distance in relation to primary stress. Similar results a...

It has been posited that the role of prosody in lexical segmentation is elevated when the speech signal is degraded or unreliable. Using predictions from Cutler and Norris' [J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 14, 113-121 (1988)] metrical segmentation strategy hypothesis as a framework, this investigation examined how individual suprasegmental and segmental cues to syllabic stress contribut...

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This paper reports on a study carried out on a group of KTH students studying Technical English. Students used WaveSurfer audiovisual synthesis to experiment with differences in pitch and duration in Swedish-English cognates. The exercise helped students achieve long-term acquisition of correct lexical stress for the particular words.

Dutch listeners were slower to make judgements about the semantic relatedness between a spoken target word (e.g. atLEET, 'athlete') and a previously presented visual prime word (e.g. SPORT 'sport') when the spoken word was mis-stressed. The adverse effect of mis-stressing confirms the role of stress information in lexical recognition in Dutch. However, although the erroneous stress pattern was ...

English stress placement in phrase-medial and phrasefinal position is investigated. Current results indicate that Taiwanese ESL learners realise polysyllabic words that carry various degrees of stress in two prosodic positions with considerable differences relative to the native American English speakers, and the differences are demonstrated from acoustical and phonetic perspectives.

Journal of the International Phonetic Association / FirstView Article / March 2016, pp 1 17 DOI: 10.1017/S0025100315000183, Published online: 20 January 2016 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0025100315000183 How to cite this article: Mahire Yakup and Joan A. Sereno Acoustic correlates of lexical stress in Uyghur. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Av...

This paper investigates lexical stress detection for L2 English speech using Deep Belief Networks (DBNs). The features of the DBN used in this work include the syllable-based prosodic features (assumed to have Gaussian distribution) and their expected lexical stress (assumed to have Bernoulli distribution). As stressed syllables are more prominent than their neighbors, the two preceding and two...