Catalan speakers’ perception of word stress in unaccented contexts
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Catalan speakers' perception of word stress in unaccented contexts.
In unaccented contexts, formant frequency differences related to vowel reduction constitute a consistent cue to word stress in English, whereas in languages such as Spanish that have no systematic vowel reduction, stress perception is based on duration and intensity cues. This article examines the perception of word stress by speakers of Central Catalan, in which, due to its vowel reduction pat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.3268506