In the present study, we examined whether stress constrains the number of activated lexical candidates. In a phoneme monitoring task, we used Dutch carrier words that start in their citation form with a reduced vowel /F/ (denoted as @), but which can also be produced with an unreduced vowel. For example, a word such as frequent (meaning frequent) can be pronounced as fr@QUENT (/frF kwHnt/) or f...

Lexical stress plays an important role in the prosody of German, and presents a considerable challenge to native speakers of languages such as French who are learning German as a foreign language. These learners stand to benefit greatly from Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) systems which can offer individualized corrective feedback on such errors, and reliable automatic detection...

This paper studies how focus, lexical stress and rising boundary tone act on F0 of the last preboundary word. We find that when the word is non focused, the rising boundary tone takes control almost from the beginning of the word and flattens F0 peak of the lexical stress. When the word is focused, the rising boundary tone is only dominant after F0 peak of lexical stress is formed. This peak is...

This paper introduces a method to assess lexical stress patterns in American English words automatically using machine learning algorithms, which could be used on the computer assisted language learning (CALL) system. We aim to model human production concerning lexical stress patterns by training stress patterns in a native speaker’s utterances and making use of it to detect erroneous stress pa...

stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. all of the words in lexicon regardless of the apparent structure and the number of their syllables have their own stress. given that the regularities governing stress assignment in persian depend on the type of lexical category and that persian speakers have a tendency to assign stress at the end of words, the goal of the presen...

In a free-stress language like Italian, automatic detection of stressed syllables is of great importance for access to the lexicon. In continuous speech recognition systems this information can facilitate lexical access since it constrains the location of ward boundaries and can reduce the process of ward hypothesizing and matching. The paper summarizes the results of acoustic and perceptual st...

The purpose of this paper is to study lexical stress in Mongolian and its place of realization. Words and short declarative sentences are analyzed. We observe certain regularity in the rising of F0 on the most prominent syllables. We also show that duration is used as a correlate of stress in the sense that long vowels are privileged to receive stress: the stress falls on the syllable which con...

This study explores the influence of focus and givenness on the cognitive processing of rhythmic irregularities occurring in natural speech. Previous ERP studies showed that even subtle rhythmic deviations are detected by the brain if attention is directed towards the rhythmic structure. By using question-answer pairs, it was investigated whether subtle rhythmic irregularities in form of stress...