Listener adjustment of stress cue use to fit language vocabulary structure
| Autor: | Bruggeman, L.L.I.C., Yu, J., Cutler, A., Frota, S., Cruz, M., Vigário, M. |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Frota, S., Cruz, M., Vigário, M. |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022 Frota, S.; Cruz, M.; Vigário, M. (ed.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, pp. 264-267 Frota, S.; Cruz, M.; Vigário, M. (ed.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 264-267. Bauxais : International Speech Communication Association STARTPAGE=264;ENDPAGE=267;TITLE=Frota, S.; Cruz, M.; Vigário, M. (ed.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022 |
| DOI: | 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-54 |
| Popis: | Item does not contain fulltext In lexical stress languages, phonemically identical syllables can differ suprasegmentally (in duration, amplitude, F0). Such stress cues allow listeners to speed spoken-word recognition by rejecting mismatching competitors (e.g., unstressed set- in settee rules out stressed set- in setting, setter, settle). Such processing effects have been observed in several stress languages (e.g., Spanish, Dutch, German); but English listeners have long been known to largely ignore stress cues. Listeners from other stress languages even outdo English listeners in distinguishing stressed versus unstressed English syllables. This has been attributed to the relative frequency across the stress languages of unstressed syllables with full vowels; in English most unstressed syllables contain schwa, instead, and stress cues on full vowels are thus least often informative in this language. If only informativeness matters, would English listeners encountering situations where such cues would pay off for them (e.g. learning one of those other stress languages) then shift to using stress cues? Likewise, would stress cue users with English as L2, if mainly using English, shift away from using the cues in English? Here we report tests of these two questions, with each receiving a yes answer. We propose that English listeners’ disregard of stress cues is purely pragmatic. Speech Prosody 2022: The Eleventh International Conference on Speech Prosody (Lisbon, Portugal, 23-26 May 2022) |
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