This study investigates the acoustic correlates of contrastive word stress in bisyllabic and trisyllabic German words, produced by children and their parents. Results of the acoustic analysis of speech data are reported that were collected from three children aged 2;3 to 6;1 and their mothers during a period of two years, as a part of a more comprehensive study on the acquisition of word stress...

The present paper argues that multilingual generation must be considered as a kind of multilingual communication requiring similar resources as translation. One of the central resources necessary is that of contrastive knowledge, both linguistic and nonlinguistic. We will show what this contrastive knowledge comprises and make a proposal of how to construct it employing the approach used in the...